Nature's In It

Last Friday's Party at Zubar marked DJ Nature's return to Dallas after more than six months in Puerto Rico and Indiana, amongst other places, touring and recording an album with Puerto Rican singer MIMA. After gaining some attention in Latin and South America with her self titled debut album last year, Mima, who has known Nature for a number of years, elected to come to Denton a couple different times in 2006 to write songs with Nature and a number of other notable locals, including Mike West (Violent Squid), Jeremy Schroder (NO2Self) and Shane English.

Utilizing some of the Denton birthed material, Nature and Mima traveled to a small children's music school near Nature's family home in Indiana to work out and record her second full length, which Nature recorded and produced over several months in the beginning of this year. Emerging from the frozen schoolhouse with roughly 18 tracks, the pair is now in the process of sifting through their material to determine which songs will appear on the record, and they have been nice enough to share two of the tracks with us for your downloading pleasure (below). Both are quite good, showcasing Mima's haunting yet highly seductive vocals and Nature's impressive ability to mold his musical influences into something that fits perfectly with the style of his subject, keeping his dub and latin dance influences while moving them into a more commercially viable but equally impressive and musically interesting place. To be honest, both of these songs are extremely catchy and well put together, but Nature's mix of "Ojo Avizor" is the one that got us going immediately. You can really hear the track going over well on just about any dance floor anywhere:

LINK "Ojo Avizor (DJ Nature remix)"


LINK "Damen"


Additionally, Nature and Mima have just completed a tour of Puerto Rico with Dallas songwriter Jonas Ra, who played keyboards and guitar with Nature (drums and bass) backing up Mima. Anyway, you can download one of his tracks below and get a better idea of the broad range of musical influences the trio drew from on tour.

LINK "Mississippi" by Jonas Ra