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“A lot of the songs on this record were written in early morning hours before the sun came up over the mountains by my house. Sometimes I just woke up, got my coffee and went straight into the studio; sometimes I just didn’t go to sleep the night before. Either way that was like the magic time for me. I’d write music while it was still dark out, and the arrangement would start to come together as the sun came up… so that’s Boom Bap Sunrise right there…” Rural Sounds is an attempt to redefine what it means and how it feels to make music outside of the urban. “It’s Hip Hop beats, deep basslines, exotic percussions. But I think that fits rural and urban life… whether the sound is edgy and painful or warm and soulful.” After producing a digital release for British label Working Beats in 2005, Zane started work on Boom Bap Sunrise. (Former label-mate Green Cigar makes an appearance on the CD remixing the funky “Star Slide”) The CD was released February 2007 on Leisure Lab. Zane Tate is a North Carolina-based music producer who mixes instrumental Hip Hop with Downtempo and Nu Jazz sounds. He released his debut album, Boom Bap Sunrise: Rural Sounds Vol. 1, in 2007. Properly Chilled said of the CD: "A blend of downtempo textures and broken beat kicks infused with the finest instrumental hip-hop, this album is up any music gourmet's alley." Since then Zane has written for and published the successful music web site, Leisure Lab (also the name of his record label), interviewing artists such as Nicolay and Phonte of the Foreign Exchange, Dudley Perkins, Mark de Clive-Lowe, and eLZhi of Slum Village. In December of 2009, Zane returned to producing music with the release of Not of this World, a digital-only single. Zane describes the songs as "inspired instrumental Hip Hop alongside dark and moody Downtempo."
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