Moondog Sikes Harrison Green, Hi$e Cold Piece of Mind
Moondogg Sikes
Harrison Green
(Mdaht Recordings)
Local musician Jonathan Williams is the mastermind behind the resident music group Moondogg Sikes. Moondogg Sikes falls under the blanket of the Chattanooga based artist collective production studio Mdaht Recordings, that specializes in sound production, with Williams being one of the producers involved.
Moondogg Sikes is Williams individual project that he pours his heart soul into, and an outlet that recently released his first EP Harrison Green following many years of making music. Harrison Green is an independent release in association with Mdaht Recordings, and possesses very good, stylish, and different music.
Harrison Green matches Williams sole flow and style, Williams is a different breed, and a one of a kind person, much like the Harrison Green color that J. Frank Harrison, one of the largest owners of Coca-Cola, had all his cars painted in. Harrison Green is symbolic to something no one else has or can obtain; meaning there is and always will be just one Moondogg Sikes. Per the front man at Mdaht Recordings, Eroc Russell, “Moondogg Sikes is one of the most unique artists we have worked with at Mdaht Recordings, it has been great watching him grow and develop his sound.”
With a very distinctive sound and flow, Moondogg Sikes breaks, bends, and molds genres with Harrison Green. No confine is able to pin down his wide range of style. His early inspirations were the Beastie Boys, Snoop Dogg, Outkast, and Emenim; but those artists were just fuel for his fire, and nothing to replicate.
“Hey Kids” is a funky rendition of the eighties song “Rock On”, and it is amazing. “Don’t Let Me Down (Moondogg Sikes/Mdahts feat. Floami Fly)” samples The Beatles, and it is one of the best songs that I have ever heard. “Headrok Muzik” has a hard rock base, but with an exceptional hip hop sound and flow.
Moondogg Sikes and Harrison Greenn is an essential aspect of Chattanooga, and a requisite for the Chattanooga music scene.
Hi$e Cold
Piece of Mind
(hisecold.com)
Hip-Hop music has taken countless forms since its existence as a genre, and over the years its point of origin seems to have become a bit distorted by many artists.
Finding a way to present hip hop music in its truest form is a rare talent, and demonstrating that talent with his first ever album Piece of Mind that released earlier this month, is the homegrown melody man Blake Hise, known professionally as Hi$e Cold.
After years in the making, lots of patience, and processing moments of life through creating music, Blake Hise compiled and mastered his personally produced music collection that had been stockpiling over time, with music ranging from new to old, Hi$e Cold released his first album, and it goes super hard.
Piece of Mind contains 13 authentically composed tracks, and it is good from start to finish. Accompanying very sick beats, each track is host to some extraordinarily thought provoking, reflecting, heartfelt, and powerful lyrics. Hi$e Cold paints a precise picture with his words.
He lets the listener bounce around inside of his mind for the duration of each individual track, his lyrics initiate instant imagination.
Every song on the album is superb, however, a few tracks that shine a little brighter than the rest are “The Proof”, “Fingers Up”, “It’s Me”, and “Feel This”.
With music that will hit the listener right in the heart, Hi$e Cold pours his life knowledges and sentiments out through his sound, and it is refreshing as a music lover to see an unchained person obstinately doing what they love to do, and doing it well.
Hi$e Cold finds a poetic way to say things that people feel but don’t know how to sum up, making it relatable to most people. Piece of Mind is true hip hop music at its finest.