North Carolina's
Deniro Farrar has released his debut album
Destiny Altered. In a much-deserved hat tip, he's passing 100% of profits to the album's producers, an impressively compiled upper tier group of cloudy, based Bandcamp-dominators—
SKYWLKR,
Silky Johnson,
nem270,
Ryan Hemsworth and
Keyboard Kid—as well as some relative newcomers to rap like
David Heartbreak, who makes a serious star turn flipping trance samples on "Reasons," the above video, and "
Dying to See Another Day." Farrar's voice is deep and distinctly southern, an underrepresented regional perspective for this brand of production, usually reserved for
California natives. In fact, East Oakland-based Green Ova representative
Shady Blaze makes two guest appearances, his unswerving double-time a great counterbalance to Farrar's patient flow. Other guest features include
SL Jones, fellow North Carolina resident
Big Pooh and ST 2 Lettaz from
G-Side. All typed out like this, with a seemingly endless supporting cast,
Destiny Altered sounds a bit disconnected, but Deniro Farrar works like a master carpenter, lording over the album and its umpteen special beats, never leaving any ends rough.
Destiny Altered is pay-what-you want on
Farrar's Bandcamp, and streaming in its entirely below.
Download: Deniro Farrar's Destiny Altered
