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Artist: Honey Dijon | Label:Classic Music | Format: 3xLP | Genre: Hip Hop| VinylCondition: Mint | Cover Condition:Sealed
Honey Dijon
Black Girl Magic
Classic Music Company 140 – 3 LP set on colored vinyl
Honey Dijon’sDJ sets are life-giving experiences, each head-turning beat and tempo shift primed for gathering on the dance floor in communal euphoria. The Chicago-raised house producer has spent decades honing her style behind the decks, a fact Beyonceduly noted when she recruited Dijon to contribute to this years club-ready Renaissance.The music on Dijons solo debut, 2017s The Best of Both Worlds,reaffirmed her curatorial expertise, running from hypnotic deep house to swaggering ballroom with a bevy of guest artists in tow. Follow-up Black Girl Magic expands her vision of eclectic house music built for both the club and the afters. Its Dijons most vivid release yet, jolting and joyous in equal measure as it offers up a passionate expression of Black queer joy.
Black Girl Magic has the good-natured feel of a family affair, filled out with a wide circle of new and familiar collaborators. On the standout Work, a strutting jazz-house cut, she recruits Los Angeles singer-songwriters Dave Giles II and Cor.Ece alongside Chicago hip-house legend Mike Diunn:its downpitched hook, decorated with rippling horns, is immediately irresistible. She teams up with longtime co-producer Luke Solomon on several songs, including the satiny In the Club, which recasts rap icon Evein an inspired new role as a house diva over springing synths and a driving kick drum. The pace is often brisk and uptempo, a soundtrack to a decadent night out at a club of Dijons own making that weaves messages of community and resilience into each song. When Brazilian drag star Pabllo Vittarand singer Urias break into chants on the disco-laced Everybody, you can practically hear the glee and camaraderie radiating through their smiles.
The albums buoyant music is tempered with lyrics that focus on finding love, whether for yourself or someone else. She lowers things to a simmer on Its Quiet Now, where luminous synth pads cast an air of seduction as Toronto singer Dope Earth Alien summons the strength to break off a toxic relationship: We try our best to love but all we do is fight, she chants during the ascendant bridge. Freedom has a space in the song that someday you and I will write. Even when Dijons music reaches for a gooier sentiment of positivity, she charges it with deeper impact: Love is a state of mind/It will bring us all together, singer Ramona Renea preaches on Love Is a State of Mind against a spare stomp and sauntering synths. The rudimentary backdrop amplifies the unvarnished appeal of Reneas affirming words.
Dijon is in her element here, eager to expand house musics limits. For every pulse-racing dance breakdown, theres a surprise: Show Me Some Love thumps with smoky energy, rooted by a heavy bassline, warped keys, and the mellow vocals of Channel Tres,who provides a laidback foil for Dijons punchy production. The song is another prismatic example of the way Dijons productions access the buzzy, late-night feeling when affection and tenderness flow as freely as the music pumping from the speakers. DJ love helped me survive, the spoken-word artist Kameelah Waheed says over sparse piano chords on the albums intro, Love Is. With Black Girl Magic, Dijon confers the vibrancy of that love to everyone in the room.
Contains:
Love is (feat Kameelah Waheed)
Love is a State of Mind (feat Ramona Renea)
It’s Quiet Now (feat Dope Earth Alien)
Downtown (feat Annette Bowen & Nikki O)
Drama (feat Rimarkable & Dope Earth Alien)
Stand (feat Cor.Ece)
In the Club (feat Eve)
Not About You (feat Hadiyta George)
Everybody (feat Pablo Vittar & Urias)
Show Me Some Love (feat Channel Tres)
Don’t Be Afraid (feat Latasha)
Work (Dave Giles II, Cor.Ece & Mike Dunn)
C’s Up (feat Mike Dunn)
La Femme Fantastique (feat Josh Caffe)
Love Me Like You Care (feat Hadiya George)
SEALED NEW – 3 LP set on colored vinyl in a thick gatefold jacket
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