You Should Be Listening To: Sean-Touré Thames

Sean-Touré is one of those cool artists who I came to the realization I was a fan before I even knew who they were. He’s one of those cats who put out tracks and remixes and you end up hearing in passing and thinking ‘that’s hot’, but never finding out who produced them. That’s been my experience with Mr. Thames. That came to an end when I started choppin’ it up with him on facebook.

In 2007, one of my favorite albums of the year came from an indie artist named J Soul. There was a cut I fell in love with called “Control”. This slow tempo, melodic cut was reminiscent of the downtempo electronic cuts that was on my mp3 player 24/7. I played it so much that I forgot what the rest of the album sounded like.

Fast forward a couple years and I’m choppin’ it up with my man Sean-Touré and just happened to ask him about his discography. Somehow he dropped the knowledge that he produced “Control” on Jsoul’s album. I immediately started doing some digging and found his production stamp on more than a few cuts I loved, including a remix is Kev Brown’s  ”Life’s A Gamble” and Petey & C.L’s “It’s A Love Thing”.

For those who don’t know, Sean-Touré Thames is the real deal. I’m expecting him to make an impact in 2010, start with the release of “The Sean-Touré Remix Project”(scheduled for release early next year).

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Sean-Touré Thames – My Time

Autobiography

Since his days freestyling and breakdancing for money on the streets of Baltimore, Sean-Toure’ Thames has taken his music career to the next level. Taking advantage of his growing up during the Golden era of Hip-Hop, Sean has incorporated the classic boom bap sounds of Rap music into his creative and diverse sound.

Sean has quickly developed a reputation as one of Baltimore’s best performers/producer/emcees. Sean has gained much respect from producing music for some of Baltimore’s best recording artist, his success as a test bin Winner on the Morgan St. Strictly Hip-Hop Radio Show, and his energetic live performances. Sean was blessed with artistic talent from both sides of his family.

He attributes his diverse sound from being influenced by the painting/visual artist, photographers, and musicians on his maternal side, the down home southern blues minded family members on his paternal side, and his older brother Imam Michael-Nasir Mikail Thames who introduced Rock & Roll, Jazz, and Funk to him. However, it was the streets of Baltimore that gave Sean his initial interest in Hip-Hop.

Since his first stage performance in 1992, Sean has opened shows for some of the greatest recording artist of all time like, KRS One, Chip-Fu, Nas, Wayna, Mos Def, The Fugees, INI, Pete Rock, GangStarr, Common, Bilal, and many others. Sean has also produced authorized and unauthorized remixes for artist in the music industry. In 2005 he won a Remix contest with his remix version of John Mayer’s Grammy Award winning song Daughters.

Now with his independant multimedia company Sean Toure’ Music Group, Sean will be releasing a free download remix album called The Sean-Toure’ Remix Project featuring remixes he’s done for artist like Michael Jackson,Common, 50 Cent, and The Roots. His debut LP SoundChanneler will be in stores and the internet during the Spring of 2010. Sean is ready to introduce his incredible sound to the world. This producer/emcee is prepared to be respected as one of the best artist in the game today. Get ready world! I introduce to you… Sean-Toure’.

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