{"id":6742,"date":"2023-09-01T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6742"},"modified":"2023-09-01T13:12:51","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:12:51","slug":"making-traxx-the-damion-nelson-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/?p=6742","title":{"rendered":"Making \u2018traxx\u2019 the Damion Nelson Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s always tough losing a parent. And for singer Jah Silent, the feeling of grief following the death of his mother in mid-2023, was overwhelming.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He and producer Damion \u201cThe Real Traxx\u201d Nelson find common ground on <\/span>\u2018My Closest Friend\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b>, a song released in August by Nelson\u2019s company, Breaking Records llc.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The two are close friends and were there for each other when their mothers died. <\/span>\u2018My Closest Friend\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b> was actually written by Jah Silent as his mother suffered from Alzheimer\u2019s disease.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After his mother died, he presented the song in acapella form to Nelson who made a few nips and tucks before recording what became Jah Silent\u2019s first released song in three years.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson, who lives in the United States, has been producing music for 14 years. He said he tries to stamp his sound on each track he produces.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy approach to music production is diverse; I\u2019ve been interpolating a lot these days, but I also play instruments as well as use VSTs. I play with samples on Splice like Stephen \u2018The Genius\u2019 McGregor sound killa pack.\u00a0 Or I might have a melody or lyric in my head, and I record it, make a loop then build the music around that,\u201d he explained.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Nelson is from Linstead, a lively market town in rural St. Catherine parish, Jamaica. Initially, he played drums in his church band and entered the national gospel competition as an artist with the song, <\/span>\u2018Lead Me\u2019<\/span><\/i><\/b>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Working as studio engineer for producer Clive Hunt, he learned the intricacies of music production and launched his career as a producer in 2009. Since then, he has worked on songs by American rapper Coi Leray, Luciano and D\u2019Angel.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s always tough losing a parent. And for singer Jah Silent, the feeling of grief following the death of his mother in mid-2023, was overwhelming.\u00a0 He and producer Damion \u201cThe Real Traxx\u201d Nelson find common ground on \u2018My Closest Friend\u2019, a song released in August by Nelson\u2019s company, Breaking Records llc.\u00a0 The two are close […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[239],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6742"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6742\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.reggaenorthca.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}