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Eternal Visions

4.9M streams

4,925,251

Sessions 1

3.2M streams

3,202,246

Organic Groove

384.8K streams

384,830

Makin' Friends

269.3K streams

269,285

Forest Glade

155.7K streams

155,737

All The Children

13.6K streams

13,575

I Gotta Cry

Illest in Charge

Jazzlo

The Things

Biography

Germany's KLAUS LAYER (aka Captain Crook) is a prime example of the universal language of Hip-Hop; 4,000 miles away from the city and culture that birthed the genre yet magnetically attuned to its spirit. His approach to sample-plundering and beatmaking is one that is both familiar and unorthodox. With a prodigious grasp on the tough East Coast sound, Klaus' mind wanders a landscape filled with echoes of vintage cinema, psychedelia and surrealist art as his hands remain in the present intuitively working it all through the sampler. These elements give rise to the deliberate and incidental aesthetics that are truly unique to his production, and will take you to the edge and back of what you thought Hip-Hop could sound like.