Coin Locker Kid

In 2007, Coin Locker Child started being a Fayetteville hip-hop trio, influenced by Portishead and Madlib. The ringleader, a boundary-pushing rapper with the name of Devyn Smith, shortly parted methods with vocalist Kat Reimers and bassist Dominique “Prinny” Ellis and began making a hype for himself. He kept onto the moniker Gold coin Locker Child and eventually befriended Australian manufacturer Katalyst through MySpace. Through sheer good fortune or possibly destiny, by age 21 Smith present himself inside monitor to function alongside his heroes — on Madlib’s label, with Katalyst’s friend Geoff Barrow of Portishead — to get a sprawling Stones Toss project known as Quakers. In 2011, he added vocals to three of the very most vital paths on Quakers’ self-titled recording, “Russia with Like,” “THE START,” and “Obtain Live,” and continued to set up with Katalyst for Deep Impressions.