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After the unexpected success of the Onra & Quetzal present Tribute album, Just Like Vibes is proud to present The Big Payback, released simultaneously on the Japanese record label Circulations. This album is born from an unsual process, thanks to Internet, because Byron and Onra never met.
Byron, 19 years old, is coming from Alabama, and plays piano since the age of 6. He discovered Onra, 26, French beatmaker from Paris, on Myspace at the end of 2005. They exchanged music files for months and start this prolific collaboration, completing over 30 songs in just 4 months. Onra is taking care of the drums patterns and Byron is handling the melodic part of the project, playing vintage electric keyboard Fender Rhodes and different synthesizers. You can tell there is a perfect alchemy between their two styles, and their first demos instantly grabbed the attention of several influent Internet DJ’s such as Benji B (BBC 1XTRA), Junior (recordbreakin), Jay Scarlett (Spacek), etc...
Half instrumental, The Big Payback invited numerous vocal guests, giving a much more accessible aspect to the music, at the same time for specialists and open to the mainstream crowd. The guests are Isis, an MC/singer from Toronto, whose group Thunderheist will surely blow worldwide real soon, new Yorker Peter Hadar, Detroit Diva Neco Redd, flutist Julien Marc, and the beatmaker/MC Dal-Gren from Paris, the other revelation from this album.
The Big Payback has also a track called “Cosmic Travelling” on the Beat Dimensions compilation, selected by Spacek’s own DJ Jay Scarlett and Cinnaman, released on Dutch label Rush Hour. This compilation presents, aside of Byron & Onra, the best in this worldwide underground scene.