Music – Denver
Rumin8 is a 26 year old artist from Denver who has released over 32 songs in 2017, including the popular Single "Element", and a debut Album 'The Coat Pocket Diaries'. He currently releases new music at least every 2 weeks with his series of "Rumin8 Remakes", and performs shows across Colorado.
Rumin8 manages to bring sounds to the R&B and hip-hop format that come as quite a revelation to those looking for a new escape route from those genres conformity. His vocal delivery wilfully wanders between song and rap, blurring the boundaries and never being quite owned by one side or the other but below these powerful salvos, something even more interesting is at work.
Instead of the usual tight clinical beats and pulsing bass lines which have become standard issue, Rumin8 blends spacey, cosmic interludes and wandering electronic, sounds which seem more in keeping with synth-pop or even progressive soul. The core sound may lead heavily towards the hip-hop and R&B end of the sonic spectrum but when you really start listening closely you realize that there is something revolutionary going on beneath.