By Matt Rosser
This review is about a hip hop beat producing group called The Sound Providers. They are a jazz and DJ band that backup for many hip hop artists. Jay and Soulo are the two-man production team responsible for crafting the beats. Formed in 1998 out of San Diego, California, the group produced seberal singles before coming out with their first album, An Evening with the Sounds Providers in 2004. The recent album I listened to is called True Indeed, released in 2006, and featuring hip hop artist Surreal.
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| The Sound Providers; credit James Whittinghall |
The band’s jazz like beats create an intoxicating harmony with Surreal’s smooth rhymes. This album definitely blew my mind. I could not stop listening to it. Tracks that are featured on this album feature, Push On, which really captures the Sound Provider’s essence of what they do with smooth piano playing and mellow beats. “Place to Be” is also a track featured on this album. It creates a very mellow salsa like feel and is a combination of various brass instruments and drums. These guys have so much talent, they are bringing back hip hop to it’s true roots.
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