After giving us a inside look into the fantastic life of fatherhood in video "Rhea", Quebec's most beautiful producer, Tommy Kruise returns with his new EP Fête Foreign. For those of you who aren't bilingual or failed French class, the title means "a big fiesta with attractions." According to Kruise, the EP is more of a compilation than and album, and features a more mature sound while not featuring samples. Over the course of eight tracks, the EP features the likes of grime staple JME as well as up-and-coming artists Levii Ru$$el and Earl Swavey rapping on Kruise's signature cloud-trap sounds, which mix together a host of sonic elements from G-Funk synths to glitchy emotional hi-hats. Listen to the EP and read what Tommy has to say about it below.
Tommy Kruise: I recorded the entire shit in the Red room. I basically have two rooms for myself at my place. The Red Room and the Blue Room, which can sound weird to my affiliated brothers. The Red Room is where I lay down all the work. The Blue Room is where I cool off and get lost. Everything that is a collaboration on here was done through the internet.What were you listening to during the creation of it?
I listen to too much rap shit on the daily to be truly able to let you know what I was listening to at that time. I'm constantly looking around to find new stuff in rap. It doesn't necessarily affect my production, because I don't want to be that guy that lets himself get influenced by the last record he really liked. There is always gonna be similarities with others when you lay down music or beats but hey, everyone uses the same soundpacks. If anything I was surely bumpin' some Yung Gleesh for my neighbors. They're deaf though so it works out [laughs].What do you hope people walk away with after hearing it?
I hope that everyone finds their jam in this compilation. It's a more versatile, non-conceptual approach if we put it next to my last two projects, which were totally conceptual mixtapes. There's some stuff like "Rhea," "Basement," and "Ballout" that were strictly club tools of mine that I used to get people riled up at my live shows. But then you have actual tracks with rappers on it. "Hers" was only a vinyl release but it had to be on there. I know people are gonna find their joint on there. I also know that they wanna see me evolve as an artist and not just stay in the same lane like, "Hey Tommy do some more Memphis shit." Nah my g, I'm gonna do it when it's the right time, you feel me? I just want to put out a lot of original content and I have another project that I'm lining up that is definitely pushing my limits, musically.Slava Pastuk likes his fetes like he likes his whips - @SlavaP
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Nosiey: Where did you record the album?
Tommy Kruise: I recorded the entire shit in the Red room. I basically have two rooms for myself at my place. The Red Room and the Blue Room, which can sound weird to my affiliated brothers. The Red Room is where I lay down all the work. The Blue Room is where I cool off and get lost. Everything that is a collaboration on here was done through the internet.What were you listening to during the creation of it?
I listen to too much rap shit on the daily to be truly able to let you know what I was listening to at that time. I'm constantly looking around to find new stuff in rap. It doesn't necessarily affect my production, because I don't want to be that guy that lets himself get influenced by the last record he really liked. There is always gonna be similarities with others when you lay down music or beats but hey, everyone uses the same soundpacks. If anything I was surely bumpin' some Yung Gleesh for my neighbors. They're deaf though so it works out [laughs].What do you hope people walk away with after hearing it?
I hope that everyone finds their jam in this compilation. It's a more versatile, non-conceptual approach if we put it next to my last two projects, which were totally conceptual mixtapes. There's some stuff like "Rhea," "Basement," and "Ballout" that were strictly club tools of mine that I used to get people riled up at my live shows. But then you have actual tracks with rappers on it. "Hers" was only a vinyl release but it had to be on there. I know people are gonna find their joint on there. I also know that they wanna see me evolve as an artist and not just stay in the same lane like, "Hey Tommy do some more Memphis shit." Nah my g, I'm gonna do it when it's the right time, you feel me? I just want to put out a lot of original content and I have another project that I'm lining up that is definitely pushing my limits, musically.Slava Pastuk likes his fetes like he likes his whips - @SlavaP