The songwriter, DJ and producer of
digital music known as Josh One has released his latest single,
“Wrong Way,” featuring Shana Halligan of Bitter:Sweet. The track,
dropping October 14th, has been published on the Plug Research
Records music label, which sports such popular acts as Boom Clap
Bachelors, Coultrain, and Mwahaha. Dark, jazzy, and unstoppably
stylish, “Wrong Way” by Josh One is an electronica anthem sure to
snare fans of every music genre.
Josh One cites as main artistic
inspirations the Beatles, A Tribe Called Quest, James Brown, and
Portishead. Of these, the last seems to have influenced “Wrong Way”
most. However, as a veteran DJ/producer, Josh One has gained a
reputation for making records that are derivative of exactly no one.
Asked to describe any themes his new single may have in store for
listeners, he says the message is, “That music does not have to be
genre specific.”
Neither is his artistic aim without a
corresponding methodology. Original tracks by Josh One develop
through a homegrown system of inventiveness on the part of various
talented performers and individual imaginations.
“I write, produce, program and
arrange the music,” writes Josh One. “I also collaborate and
write with brilliant musicians to obtain a live sound nobody else can
create, and my vocalists usually write their own lyrics.”
As a result, “Wrong Way” sounds
like the ghost of Billie Holiday hardwired to a circuit board. A
classy, cool and haunting ballad, it is as cross-cultural as it is
timeless. To describe its timbre as fresh and unique understates the
importance of such rogue and unexpected tones in contemporary music.
The need for new sounds is particularly
dire in today's electronic music category, which has been
increasingly plagued by “press-play” DJs since the explosion of
EDM fueled by the dubstep fad. Unlike these doppelganger singles
intended to bait a specifically targeted audience, “Wrong Way”
can mesmerize fans of Skrillex and Ella Fitzgerald equally well.
Josh One first topped the charts in
Europe with his #1 hit, “Contemplation (King Britt Funke Mix)” in
2001. His remixes of tracks like “Po' Folks” by Nappy Roots and
“Out of My League” by Fitz and the Tantrums have kept him in the
spotlight for more than a decade. His music has been a staple of
popular television programs like “CSI New York,” “CSI Miami”
and “CSI Vegas,” and also appears in advertisements for Acura and
Microsoft. It has been featured on MTV, VH1, ESPN and HBO. Prior to
his 2006 Grammy nomination for “Miss Me,” Josh One founded the
Boomnote Music label, which has published titles by such artists as
Goapele, Blu, Ta’Raach, Uncle Imani (the Pharcyde), Lili De La
Mora, Poet Name Life (Black Eyed Peas), Lateef the Truthspeaker
(Latyrx), Beat Ventriloquists, Rosey, Julie Walehwa (Contemplation)
and Repeater.
Providing clarion, crystalline vocals
on “Wrong Way” is Shana Halligan of Los Angeles' Bitter:Sweet.
Bitter:Sweet has been listed on iTunes' Top 10, and released one of
KCRW radio's “Top 5 Most Requested CDs” in 2006. Their music has
appeared on such television programs as “The Devil Wears Prada,”
“Grey's Anatomy,” “Moonlight,” “Lipstick Jungle,”
“Smallville,” and “Law and Order: Criminal Intent.”
Bitter:Sweet have also placed songs in advertisements for “Samantha
Who?,” Zune and Victoria's Secret, and have been singled out on
MSN's front-page feature, “Ones to Watch.”
Shana Halligan released her first solo
EP, “Paper Butterfly,” in 2011, which peaked on the iTunes charts
at #3.
“Wrong Way” by Josh One featuring
Shana Halligan is available online worldwide beginning 14 October
2014. Get in early.
-S. McCauley
Lead Press Release Writer
www.MondoTunes.com
“Wrong Way” by Josh One feat.
Shana Halligan at iTunes –
Plug Research Records official
Soundcloud –
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