Eddie Rockerz VibeZ

Thirty-seven tracks from the London producer who worked out how to make Afrobeats, British R&B and American pop sound like one genre. P2J is the connective tissue. The producer behind the modern Afro-fusion sound P2J — Peter Adarkwah — is a British producer of Ghanaian heritage whose work sits at the exact point where London R&B, West African pop and American mainstream production meet. He is one of the principal architects of the sound that carried Afrobeats onto global radio, and his most visible credit is Beyoncé's The Lion King: The Gift , where he was among the key producers. His signature is warmth and space. Where a lot of Afrobeats production is dense, P2J records tend to leave gaps — a bassline, a percussion pattern, a chord or two, and a great deal of air around the vocal. That restraint is why his tracks travel so easily between genres. What to listen for Burna Boy's "JA ARA E" is from The Lion King: The Gift a...