“I was always trying to record,” he says. “They got a lot over time, and that’s how I built my foundation for musical appreciation.”Īfter establishing skills on a bunch of those instruments, Knx turned to production and sampling – he would even record snippets of church sermons to tape and then loop them. “My parents used to clean the church that I was a part of, so every Saturday I’d go and clean the church with them and play the instruments – I could pretty much be alone with all of the instruments. Not only was his house full of instruments, but the church he belonged to was a goldmine as well, stocked with an array of instruments that he would eventually inherit. Raised in New Jersey, Knx’s childhood was full of music.
If you make something that’s sufficient enough, it’s going straight to wax.” It’s also an incredible thing to be a part of a label that is all about vinyl. “With Stones Throw, I can do whatever I want,” he continues. I’d met him back in Philly when I lived there a few times. “Wolf came up to me while I was playing a Charizma remix and we had a meeting a few days after that. “I was playing a Boiler Room session,” Knx says. After Knx made the move from Philly to LA in 2009, it didn’t take long for Wolf to snatch him up. Like Knx’s music, the Los Angeles sound is epitomised through the iconic Stones Throw label, founded in 1996 by Peanut Butter Wolf. Put simply, his music is very cool and very West Coast. Fusing hip hop, soul and jazz, Knx provides the perfect soundtrack for those late-night feeds and early morning car rides.
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