Releases two bass heavy remixes of his single The Future
The award winning beatboxer announces Future Bass and D&B remixes from Shamanic Technlogy and AP_AP
After collaborating with Ed Sheeran, Bjork and Damon Albarn, the record-breaking beatboxer SK Shlomo turns electronic singer-songwriter on his debut solo album Surrender, out now on his own label Nebula Productions, blending his innovative live-looping and breath-taking beatboxing with epic synths, crushingly honest lyrics and lush electronic layers.
Fourth single ‘The Future’ is an instantly gripping story of loss and hope, and today SK Shlomo announces a double package of bass heavy remixes from Future Bass producer Shamanic Technology, and D&B producer AP_AP.
Shamanic Technology’s Future Bass Remix reworks the vocal into a cross between The Beloved and Jamie xx, and feels like driving through the night in the 80’s .. but in the future. AP_AP’s remix is minimal, slick and emotional drum ‘n’ bass, packing a huge punch on the liquid jungle drop.
In May 2019 SK Shlomo releases his TEDx talk entitled Social Media Saved Me From Suicide, and is currently developing Surrender into a one man theatre show which will premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2019 alongside his ever-popular family theatre show Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure For Kids.
More info: SK Shlomo, born Simon Shlomo Kahn, knows how it feels to be on top of the world. For over a decade, the genre-defying, award-winning, recording-breaking beatboxer, producer and live-looper has set new standards for his craft.
As Shlomo, he burst in to the mainstream collaborating with Björk and performed with famous fans from Damon Albarn, Lily Allen and Jarvis Cocker to Imogen Heap, Martha Wainwright and Rudimental. As the first ever World Looping Champion, he taught his friend Ed Sheeran some tricks. He’s been Artist in Residence at London’s Southbank Centre for years, played the main stages at Glastonbury more times than he remembers, won rave reviews for his autobiographical one-man shows and even had a feature film made about him.
But staying on top becomes increasingly tricky to maintain. Despite the standing ovations and the accolades, Simon would feel oddly empty inside. Two years ago, he took a step back to work out what he wanted and his world seemed to crumble under his feet. “I’d always been incredibly driven,” says the London-born musician, now back as solo artist SK Shlomo, “but ultimately that was at the expense of my mental health.”
Behind his reinvention lies a realisation – that throughout his 20s, despite composing and producing for other artists, as well as for film and commercials, he had resisted becoming the solo recording artist he desperately wanted to be for fear of failure. Determined to change, he set himself a challenge – to write a song every day for a month. For the first five days, he delivered. Then things ground to a painful halt, triggering a mental breakdown which led to 12 months in therapy. Diagnosed with PTSD, he was forced to confront his past.
“Talking about a major trauma from my childhood was a huge turning point,” he says. “That’s when I realised what this album was about. It’s called Surrender because that’s all the traumatised me could ever do – let go and trust. It’s empowering, stopping trying to control everything around you.”
Under his new moniker SK Shlomo, Simon found himself taking a ‘dark pop’ direction after listening to lots of Caribou, Jamie xx, SOHN, FKA Twigs, James Blake and Massive Attack.
“None of my achievements in music arrived the traditional way,” he says. “Appearing on Jools Holland at the start of my career was about it. I always strived to do everything differently, to create my own path. But I’ve realised that the biggest challenge for me is to stand up on stage and simply be myself. No clever machines, no fancy techniques, no persona. This is the real me, naked so to speak. It’s the scariest, most exciting thing I’ve ever tried.”
Surrender LP is out now on Nebula Productions Records
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