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Fruit of the Salvador-Duque de Caxias connection, the EP was recorded remotely, without the producer and MC knowing each other personally. ANTCONSTANTINO found the MC from Bahia through the Brazil Grime Show selectives, when he was still part of the project. After participating in the Quarantine edition of the BGS, Bruno Kroz joined forces with ANTCONSTANTINO to raise, from a distance, an EP from scratch.

"I wanted a 100% grime EP, that someone would think 'fuck, what's grime?'
listen to my EP and say: "okay, this is grime"
– BRUNO KROZ

The main thread of the work, for producer and MC, is well defined: to present a "100% grime" result. Kroz says that he chose the genre to release his first solo EP because of the freedom he found in working with its characteristics: "I experimented a lot, I tried to do everything, boom bap, trap… And I felt that it was a very artificial stop. When I decided to migrate once in grime it was because I felt more free. I can play a lot more with flow in grime, play a lot more with words."

Among the compositions, Bruno Kroz highlights "Vapor", made from the track "Bicuda Riddim", released by producer Meio Feel in March of this year. The mutant instrument challenged the MC, but it also served as an incentive. "The grime itself is an eternal battle between the MC and the selecta. If the guy doesn't follow the beat, he'll be left behind. It was in this vision that I screwed up to write Vapor", remembers Kroz, who celebrates: "I screwed up but there you go, it's out".

ANTCONSTANTINO, on the other hand, built his work from striking elements for grime. From eskibeat – instrumental popularized by the productions of the then newbie Wiley in the early 2000s – to dubstep, he walked through references between Brazil and the United Kingdom. "At the same time we made a more marked riddim, without much bass, I wanted something that was the opposite, the macumbas I do, the crazy ones", concludes the producer referring to Vapor and QUEBRANDO E MAMASANDO – a track featuring the participation from the already veteran KBrum.

"For me there was a lot of "do it yourself", which has a lot in punk, in hardcore. There were a lot of people involved, who have a great job, and everyone bought the idea", highlights ANTCONSTANTINO. Among the project's collaborators are the Bahia member of Underismo deusnobruxo, who did the recording of the tracks; the collective ACIDBOYZ, which signs the art of the EP, and the DJ and producer RHR, responsible for the mastering, both from Londrina. Mixing was done by Chediak, who also signs the EP's co-production.