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Sa • 13.12.201422:00

MNDSGN

Beats, Hip Hop, Cloudy R’n’B, Soul, Jazz, Electronics, Bass, Eclectic Future Sounds

Mndsgn (pronounced mind design) is Stones Throw’s latest signing, and his path to one of hip-hop’s most esteemed labels has certainly not been your classic one.
Ringgo Ancheta is an anomaly among hip-hop producers – not raised in the suburbs on a steady diet of video games and hip-hop, but in the forest like a beast. His parents were members of the Philippine arm of the Aum Supreme Truth Cult, whose venture into terrorist activity caused them to flee the group in the late 1980s. They were granted political asylum in the U.S. and settled in rural New Jersey, where Ancheta was raised on the outskirts of a commune without electricity while his father worked as a researcher at Princeton Neuroscience Institute. Ancheta describes one of his earliest excursions of his own into the modern world, when he hitchhiked to Philadelphia. “The first guy I met on the street introduced me to the world of music and beat making. Within a day I was making my own beats on his sampler.”
As his trips into the city became more frequent, he began using the name Mndsgn (pronounced “mind design”), inspired by the Nas lyric, “my mind is seeing through your design like blind fury,” and a not-so-subtle nod to his father’s work in neuroscience.
His transformation complete, Mndsgn headed. Ancheta’s album Yawn Zen draws from these experiences, with the tracks being recorded ‘in a state of bliss’, something that is in turn reflected in his Bonafide Beats mix. A sultry blend of r’n'b, soul and jazz, you could choose worse ways to slowly ease yourself into the Autumn months ahead.

  • Mndsgn (Stones Throw, LA)

  • Kenji 451 & Richard Steel (Long Lost Rel.)

  • Studio 17

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