11 11 Tracklist
“11 11 is the debut collaboration album between EDM producer Guy Gerber and rap artist Puff Daddy, aka Sean Combs.
The album was intended to be released alongside Comb’s own group’s debut album: Diddy – Dirty Money’s “Last Train To Paris” in 2012, but was delayed until 2014.
A mixtape was released on February 14th, 2011, as a prelude to both LPs, and featured three of the duos collaborations: “Last Train [Intro]”, “Repercaution” and “Angels [Remix]”.
The album is made up of a combination of unreleased Dirty Money material, remixed by Gerber and written with singer-songwriter James Fauntleroy and members Dawn Richard and Kalenna, alongside original instrumentals by Gerber alone.
Several of the tracks feature vocal samples from Puff Daddy, as well as those from the original demos by Dawn Richard, G-Dep, Nas, James Fauntleroy and Kalenna.
“11 11” Q&A
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What have the artists said about the album?
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11 11 sounds more like one of Gerber’s records than one of Diddy’s, a collection of moody techno that seems almost ambient until played at the proper volume. The hooks are there, but they often require a little searching. According to Gerber, the pair wanted to make an album that could be understood by both Paris Hilton and Seth Troxler, the EDM-loving heiress and the critical fave who contributed production.
Citing the kind of – as Gerber puts it – “underground beats” that get played in Ibiza clubs like DC10, Diddy initially wanted the album to expose a new kind of music to a new kind of audience. Gerber, however, suggested they take a different approach: “He thought that we could surprise people with something really weird and nasty, but I thought that if it was very emotional and deep, it would actually be even more surprising.”
In the beginning, most of the album was made with the two artists in different cities or on different continents. Gerber, at the time, “wasn’t interested in making dance floor tracks,” but Diddy pushed him to add songs that would give the album a little more thrust. “I have to say,” says Gerber, still surprised, “he never came upon anything weird and said, ‘Hey dude, I want it like this.’ He was actually pushing me to be more weird.”
“He had the vision for the album, then I made it with my sound,” he adds, chuckling. “I’m a very honest guy. If I felt like he didn’t do anything, I would say fuck off.”
