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Rocker Album Cover

“I was currently producing another project where I only had the capacity to be an engineer and knew that I was only using a fraction of my talents by merely twisting knobs, so I wanted to compose something of my own free will.
I had mentioned to a few different rappers I was working with that I wanted to produce a song influenced by the club music I was into at the time: LMFAO, Pitbull, MSTRKRFT, Justice, and the rock and roll I have always listened to.
So me and NiQ hooked up at the Blue Moon one night and he had a hook he mentioned sometime before that needed a beat. Basically we just killed it within 90 minutes, I was trying to play electro synth on the keyboard but I couldn’t get the tone I wanted so I just stepped up to the mic and did the sound with my voice.
That turned out to be the actual sample in the final version of the song. Listening to electro sometimes seems like rock to me and very easy to translate to the guitar with sorta the same feel, so I just played what fit and stayed away from overly complicated riffs or solos to keep in the pocket.
I took a long time to mix on this, just redoing and tweaking things till them fell into place, we got it mastered in NYC at Sterling Sound by Will Quinnell a few times to get the right aggressiveness, and all the hard work had finally come together into one perfect single. ”

Download ‘Rocker’ by NiQ [Produced by VJ OZ] at http://www.shop.niqmusic.com

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Check out the Urb Review of NiQ’s track ‘HNIC’

Reviewed by Adam Figman

  It’s the classic way to enter to the rap game. Get a job as a mortgage salesman, then lose it due to a recession and a collapsing housing market, then hit the studio. OK, maybe it’s not the standard way of entering hip-hop, but there’s very little that’s standard about NiQ. Abbreviating the term “unique” in his stage name, the Columbus, Ohio native makes both club-bumping tunes that will have you ready to party and mind-stimulating jams that may cause you to sit down and ponder a little. This versatility is one of the many reasons his name is no coincidence. Peep “HNIC” for the proof.

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