Ernie Fresh x Mophono x Egyptian Lover - California Colors EP, 12" Vinyl
Ernie Fresh x Mophono x Egyptian Lover - California Colors EP, 12" Vinyl
“From the 80s to the 90s that’s where you will still find me”
The California Colors EP is a pilgrimage to a sacred place. The trio Ernie Fresh, Mophono, and legendary electro producer Egyptian Lover bow at the altar of the art form, offering only the realest expression of the elements. It’s is the four elements, graffiti, breaking, emceeing and deejaying, in harmonious, head-nod bliss.
From Ernie Fresh’s dedicated toast, “this one is going out to all the straight up, motherfucking b-boys,” the California Colors EP calibrates to a symposium dedicated to the breakers on linoleum, and the renegade artists that paint in rustoleum. The title track is a head trip down the krylon aisle as Fresh dreams of Oxnard Oranges and Gardenia Greens he’ll ignite to the shell of a clean train. Fresh is most notable as the ring leader with the Rakim cadence on DJ Shadow’s “The Sideshow” from 2016’s The Mountain Will Fall, but he’s cut his teeth in Northern California as a member of the group Who Cares.
Behind the boards is San Francisco producer Mophono and the legendary Egyptian Lover. The two producers encapsulate a sound that feels like the result of getting lost in video clips of Detroit’s legendary The New Dance Show footage. The California Colors EP is a living time capsule of electro futurist production, particularly Egyptian Lover’s mastery of the 808. It’s the result of Mophono obsessing over Kraftwerk’s “It’s More Fun To Compute” and Just Ice’s “Little Bad Johnny,” only to arrive at legendary Rusk Studio in the presence of creator of “Egypt Egypt.”
Among the collaborators on this project are Young Aundee who produces with Mophono as Electro Freeze Force and long-time Egyptian Lover collaborator Jaime Jupiter. In Rusk Studios the group had access to Egyptian Lover’s extensive cache of vintage synths like the Jupiter-8 and the same vocoder he used on “Egypt Egypt.”
Track Listing:
1- California Colors
2- Racks (Mophono's 91 Remix)
3- Candy Stryper
4- Racks
5- Flynamic 44
6- California Colors Instrumental
7- Flynamic
8- California Colors Acapella
9- Racks Acapella
10- Flynamic Acapella
11- Flynamic Parts & Skip On Beat Tools