Rjd2

A producer whose skill and fluency with a number of genres makes him impressively difficult to pin down, RJD2's body of work makes a strong case for ignoring stylistic conventions. Even his acclaimed 2002 debut album Dead Ringer reflected his fondness for cinematic atmosphere and forays into jazz as much as his strong ties to the underground hip-hop scene. From there, he took one unexpected turn after another, folding '70s pop and rock influences into 2004's Since We Last Spoke, going sample-free on the alt-pop musings of 2007's The Third Hand, and adding his own live drumming...