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Rhett Frazier, Inc.: Escape from Dee-Troyt
by Chris M. Slawecki
At first, singer-songwriter Rhett Frazier and producer-drummer Donny Gruender incorporated" this joint retro-futuristic soul side project just to play around, nothing more than a diversion from their Los Angeles studio session work (Gruender, for example, rocks beats for the Motown house band, the Funk Brothers). But their Escape quickly evolved into its own full-blown monster: Two modernists using hip-hop cut and paste methods to recombine the stylistic DNA of rhythm and rock.
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