Damu The Fudgemunk is Earl Davis. Producer, DJ and multi-instrumentalist out of Washington, DC, and he co-owns the vinyl-focused label Redefinition Records. He first surfaced as half of the duo Y Society with rapper Insight. Warm, sample-driven boom bap: crunchy drums, chopped soul and jazz loops, horn lines layered into small narratives. 'Tea Thyme' is off How It Should Sound Volume 1 & 2, the collection of his earlier beats that Redefinition put out in 2010. Proof of his range: Ocean Bridges, an improvised album recorded in 2019 with jazz saxophone legend Archie Shepp and rapper Raw Poetic, came out in 2020, alongside a string of other collaborations with Raw Poetic. Later releases include Away Back In (2023) with Raw Poetic and Peace of Action (2024).
From the notes for Episode 04 · fact-checked Oct 4, 2026.
