NATIVE SKETCHES
09 // Prezident Jeff
After a night out in Toronto, I felt inspired to make this - it’s the beginning of a club or stadium kind of record. To start with, I took a loop of percussion from Damage, and filtered off some of the high end. Reaktor 6 is definitely the basis of this sketch – the main melody is the Silent Night preset from Kontour, then Birds of Paradise from Razor comes in at the 28 second mark. From that point on, I concentrated on getting a bounce with the drums, then rounded everything out with an 808.
From a technical standpoint, this was a fairly simple process – I didn’t want to complicate the finished by product by doing anything too outside the box. I just concentrated on combining unique sounds with a hard hitting low end.
Biography
Jeffery Offe, known professionally as Prezident Jeff, is a Ghanaian Canadian music producer from Toronto, ON. Jeff has built a reputation as one of the premiere producers in the Toronto music scene, having produced for such notable artists as Wiz Khalifa, Kevin Gates, Little Simz, and J-Soul. His creative relationship with OVO’s Roy Woods has sparked some of Roy’s most popular hits, 'Down Girl' and 'Instinct'.