D/L: Nicolay "Nautilus"
Nicolay is one of my favorite 'post-golden-era' hip hop producers without any fraction of a doubt. His work is consistently lush with soul and grit, and it's all original works with no samples or counterparts. Like many, many others, I got turned on to Nicolay's beats from the epic Foreign Exchange debut from 2004 "Connected" on forward-thinking UK label BBE. To keep the history brief for those that don't know, Foreign Exchange is comprised of Phonte from Little Brother outta Durham, NC and the man Nicolay from Holland. They had first made contact over message boards on Okayplayer.com and began recording and sending music back and forth. Soon after, Phonte and Nicolay formed the Foreign Exchange without having ever met each other in person. Phonte, being one of the baddest MC's of these times, prolly felt this heat coming off of his desktop in '03 and just had to get with it. Nicolay gives us this original tune (instead of using royalty free samples for a Bob James tribute), he also releases the tune as a free download to share with all his peoples.
More:
Awesome "Nautilus" edit from Shoes
Shoes "Nautilus"
And of course the original, an unspeakable classic in my mind.
Bob James "Nautilus"
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