Updated 23:50, June the 4th, 2009
Not buying it
MUSIC. By day, Swarthmore grad Adrian Mathurin logs 40 hours a week working for the city. On the local hip-hop scene, however, he is known as Ahd Child, a steady collaborator with the well-known local group THOR Takeover. But contributing to THOR has never totally quenched his creative impulses, and since 1999 Mathurin has been distributing his own compositions, including two self-produced LPs, “Meeting of the Minds” (2006) and “Reverse Psychology” (2007).
After years of selling his music by hand and over the Web, Ahd (pronounced odd) Child’s current album, “Nothing Expected,” is a kind of ongoing conversation with his audience, as Mathurin is releasing free downloads of the in-progress recordings on his new Web site, www.noth
ingexpected.com.
“I just want to make what comes to me at the moment,” he says. “I don’t want to have to market it or sell it.”
Ahd Child’s new compositions lean toward a more whimsical day-in-the-life quality. “One thing I’ve realized working on albums is that you have to focus so much on finishing that big project,” says Mathurin. “And that’s good because it helps you complete things, but at the same time I was so limited creatively.”
