Must Listen! ‘Yasiin Gaye: The Departure (Side One)’ – Fantastic Remix / Mashup Album

We’ve been waiting for the full release of Yasiin Gaye: The Departure (Side One) by Amerigo Gazaway since we caught wind of the project thorough the “teaser” and first song, “Inner City Travellin’ Man.”

As connoisseurs of a good remix, we have seen many such attempts fall short, but the construction of that refix alone let us know there was a bundle of goodness to follow.

UPDATE: Due to copyright takedown, The Departure is not available at the moment.

As such, check out the full Yasiin Gaye: The Departure (Side One) below. We will let their description speak for itself, but really, it doesn’t matter. Just listen.

Amerigo Gazaway’s new *Soul Mates* series continues the theme of his previous work in creating collaborations that never were. On the series’ first installment, the producer unites Brooklyn rapper Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) and soul legend Marvin Gaye for a dream collaboration aptly titled “Yasiin Gaye”. Building the album’s foundation from deconstructed samples of Gaye’s Motown classics, Gazaway re-orchestrates the instrumentation into new productions within a similar framework. Carefully weaving Bey’s dense raps and Gaye’s soulful vocals over his new arrangements, the producer delivers a quality far closer to Gaye’s famous duets than that of a “mashup” album.