Nkem Obi-Melekwe creates music under the name Mon Nobi. His songs are dreamy and surreal, sometimes psychedelic; they grow out of the calamity of everyday sounds. Nkem also has his roots in hip hop, and many of his songs oscillate in and out of that region of music. They can sometimes move from trip hop to fully ambient electronic and then into straight, old school beats. He's a young guy, but he's already carved out his own peculiar and ever developing style. 

Conversation Topics: music, the South, Asheville, North Carolina, producing, sampling, collaborating, soundcloud, genres, playfulness, screamo, recording, cartoons, Adult Swim, Flying Lotus, Htrk, Phantogram, drawing. 

 

Find his music at:

soundcloud.com/monnobi

monnobi.bandcamp.com

 

Follow him on Twitter:

@nkemobm

 

Songs in order played:

1) What But A Blip on a Bell Curve

2) Lykmnd'd

3) Bread & Circuses

4) Houzcat

5) Iris

6) Dwyndwn

7) Why Am I Still Awake?

8) REM Rebound

9) MonoNoAware

10) The Koolaid

 

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