Blessed with a heightened sensitivity to frequency and a love of bass and subbass; Rashad has this discipline via working as chief mastering engineer at the legendary Dubplates & Mastering suite. With this in mind, the inspired architecture, dynamics and feel of 'Traditional Music Of Notional Species' can be heard as a deliberate and hyper-conscious bypassing of staid conventions in melody, harmony and meter, searching out and inhabiting the microtonal spaces between sounds with an in-depth understanding of their complex relationships and structures.