The Smuggler's Candle

by DJ Criminal

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1.	Prologue 00:36	info	buy track
2.	The Smuggler's Candle 04:17	info	buy track
3.	Tavelogue 00:38	info	buy track
4.	Siam Deception (Ft. Akil the MC of Jurassic 5) 04:35	info	buy track
5.	The Know It Alls (Ft. A-F-R-O & Carnage The Executioner) 04:04		buy track
6.	Midnight (Ft. Annie Lockwood) 04:00		buy track
7.	Mountain Tops (Ft. Slug of Atmosphere, Blueprint, and Jennifer Charles) 03:55		buy track
8.	S.E.Z. (Special Economic Zone) (Ft. Bai Ling) 02:03		buy track
9.	Little Corner (Ft. illogic) 04:16		buy track
10.	It's Easy (Ft. Barfly) 04:36		buy track
11.	Green Village 02:47	info	buy track
12.	H.Y.L.A. (Ft. Empuls) 02:59	info	buy track
13.	Mong La 03:15		buy track

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“The Smuggler’s Candle” inspired by our hero’s travels, the last four years living in Afghanistan, the people he’s met and the vivid universe he’s taken in this whole time.
 
With “The Smuggler's Candle” DJ Criminal takes listeners on a 41-minute worldwide adventure, presenting a myriad of sounds and guests along the way. DJ Criminal flexes all over this album, not only having a star-studded guest list but bringing the “Producer Album” to prominence once again. In between the vocal tracks DJ Criminal gives the listener a number of strictly instrumental tracks. It doesn’t stop there as those tracks are full of transitions, changeups, scratches, easter eggs, samples and more to add dimensions to his instrumentals. While Criminal is a producer & deejay, the undercurrent of this entire project is his title as Curator. With international crime journalist Sean Williams providing a few interludes throughout the record to having Jennifer Charles (who hasn't appeared on a Hip-Hop album since Dan the Automator and Mike Patton's Lovage) as a guest on the lead single “Mountain Tops” these intentional and conscious choices bring “The Smuggler’s Candle” to life. This is before names like Akil the MC of Jurassic 5, Slug of Atmosphere, A-F-R-O and countless others present themselves on the record.

DJ Criminal’s “The Smuggler’s Candle” is a 13 track album full of different moods and genres, a perfect chance to learn the breadth of the work a deejay does while getting a full buffet of dark yet beautiful music.

credits

released August 26, 2022

All songs produced by DJ Criminal
All songs engineered and mastered by Joe Mabbott at the hideaway studio MPLS.
Bass guitar on Midnight and Siam Deception by Tom Wilson
PR by Jerry Graham
Additional production on H.Y.L.A. by Kount Fif

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DJ Criminal

DJ Criminal, originally from America, has spent the last 20 years playing shows and hunting vinyl all over the globe. From Afghanistan to Egypt and from Thailand to Japan.

Produced songs with Kool Keith (“Dr. Octagon”), Slug of Atmosphere, Gift of Gab of Blackalicious. Performed at festivals Scribble Jam and The Vans Warped Tour.

His music incorporates sounds from all over the globe. ... more