Shine Flow EP Track List

1. Da Indies

The Shine Flow EP opens with a short and catchy track, no chorus. Molina’s five-year-old son began singing parts after one listen and it became his favorite song. Da Indies is a flashy shout out to everyone who shines on their own, without corporate or mainstream legitimization. Flow your truth and represent you.

2. Shine Flow

Shine Flow is a celebration of dreams. Amidst struggling to rise and claim our respective destinies, we must take time to pause, reflect, smile, and reward ourselves for our work, our grind, our commitment.

3. Dee-Jay

This is a modern-day ode to the DJ, whose 1’s and 2’s house incredible power. Mr. and Ms. music selector, you are your own Dee-Jay. What type of reality do you create with the music you rep? In the words of DJ Icewater, listen carefully.

4. Sin Papeles

DJ Icewater delivered a bangin’ but haunting beat, which we used to explore the schizophrenic reality of urban youth without papers. Two million young people in the U.S. have been tagged illegal in their parents’ struggle to survive. We use our flow to shine light on their struggle.

5. Wrong Ways (Aju Mix)

There are two versions of Wrong Ways. On the Shine Flow EP, we offer the Aju Mix― a song about roots, race, identity formation, being torn between different cultures and realities, the pain that comes with forced choices when there is no choice to make. Regardless of our roots, we are all whole, and this is everybody’s story. This track, like Sin Papeles, features Aju’s multilingual abilities, peppered with Japanese reflections of her homeland.

6. People (Molina Mix)

This one is for the people at a time of mass destabilization and chaos, economic crisis, government repression (timeless). Molina maintains a smooth but furious pace on this track, telling pre-election 08 stories about his travels and some people he encountered.

The Shine Flow EP also contains clean versions of Da Indies, Sin Papeles, and People (Molina Mix).

All tracks produced, recorded and mixed by DJ Icewater.

SHINE FLOW EP RELEASE JUNE 9, 2009