The past two years have been a rollercoaster for David Dallas. He signed to underground powerhouse Duck Down Music NYC in 2011, releasing second album The Rose Tint in the US soon after, and touring throughout North America with hip hop duo Aer. A spot at the notoriously hard-to-get-into SXSW Fader party.
Big-ups from Kanye West and adds to MTV America and Australia. Short listing for New Zealand’s highest songwriting accolade, the Taite Prize. A tour of New Zealand with P-Money, and the release of his Buffalo Man EP.
Not wanting to rest on laurels, the start of 2013 saw Dallas enter the studio with production whizz kids Fire & Ice; note book in hand. Diamonds are made under pressure and in four months, Dallas had twelve unparalleled finished tracks to put his name to.
D.Dot talks a big game but he’s still a storyteller. Themes on Falling Into Place range from epic Django Unchained tales of escape on first single Runnin’, to his tribute to the streets of South Auckland, Southside. Arguably the biggest innovator in hip hop New Zealand has seen in two decades, Dallas has once again turned his eagle eye to finding new and unusual talent to mix in with his own.
On The Wire and The Gate he collaborates with alt. pop icon Ruby Frost, the tracks bookending the album (both songs had been demo-ed a year before ‘that’ TV show, to quell any notions of bandwagon-jumping). Elsewhere in the tracklisting, up-and comers Spycc and Rokske rub shoulders with long time wingmen Sid Diamond, Mareko, PNC and US superstar rapper Freddie Gibbs.
With his second album The Rose Tint, David Dallas made new rules for how a record should be sold and marketed. Expect the unexpected when Falling Into Place drops on October 25.
“I’m out here, I’m hungry. I don’t play’ around, trust me.” – ‘Runnin’, David Dallas
Produced: Fire & Ice, tracks 5 and 11 by Nick ‘41’ Maclaren.
Engineered: Evan Short (P-Money, Aaradhna)
Tracklisting:
01 The Wire feat. Ruby Frost
02 Transmitting Live
03 Runnin
04 Gotta Know feat. Rokske
05 How Long feat. PNC & Spycc
06 My Mentality feat. Freddie Gibbs
07 Local Celeb
08 Southside feat. Sid Diamond & Mareko
09 Follow
10 Right There
11 One More
12 The Gate feat. Ruby Frost
David Dallas – “Falling into Place” Australian Tour
Wednesday 18th December – Causeway Bar, Perth
Thursday 19th December – Alhambra Lounge, Brisbane
Friday 20th December – Bondi Beach Road Hotel, Sydney
Saturday 21st December – The Espy, Melbourne
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