About daedaePIVOT

Originally from New Jersey, daedaePIVOT is a Grammy Award Winning, Billboard #1, RIAA Certified Gold music producer. He received a bachelors degree from Northwestern University in classical percussion and was a regular member in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, as well as a percussion/drum instructor at the high school level for 10+ years. He served as the music director for Saba's live shows from 2015 to 2020, preparing show tracks and playing keys / synth bass / percussion on the Bucket List Tour and Care For Me Tours, as well as countless music festivals and college shows. He currently co-owns Top Note Studios in North Hollywood CA, and produces for many artists in the industry. DaedaePIVOT is also an engineer for hire; mixing, recording, and mastering at Top Note Studios.

Accolades:

  • Grammy Award for Best Rap Album 2024: Doechii - Alligator Bites Never Heal
  • RIAA Certified Gold Producer for Kehlani song "RPG feat. 6LACK"
  • RIAA Certified Gold Producer for Kehlani album "While We Wait" and Wiz Khalifa Album "Rolling Papers II"
  • Billboard #1 Album on the Billboard Top R&B Albums for "While We Wait" and #2 for "Rolling Papers II"
  • Billboard #2 Album on the Billboard 200 for "Rolling Papers II"
  • Billboard #9 Album on the Billboard 200 for "While We Wait"
  • Billboard #14 Album on the Billboard 200 for "Alligator Bites Never Heal"
  • Billboard #43 Album on the Billboard 200 for "CARE FOR ME"
  • Billboard #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 for "RPG"

Executive Production Credits:

  • Saba - Care For Me
  • Saba - Few Good Things
  • Pivot Gang - You Can't Sit With Us
  • Benjamin Earl Turner - Bad Nature


Production Credits:

Doechii

  • Death Roll

Kehlani

  • RPG (feat. 6LACK)
  • Get Me Started (feat. Syd)

Wiz Khalifa

  • Hot Now

    Saba
  • Still (feat. 6LACK and Smino)
  • Survivor's Guilt (feat. G Herbo)
  • Logout (feat. Chance the Rapper)
  • Few Good Things (feat. Black Thought and Eryn Allen Kane)
  • Make Believe (feat. Fousheé)
  • Come My Way (feat. Krayzie Bone)
  • Beautiful Smile (feat. IDK)
  • Areyoudown? Pt. II (feat. tobi lou)
  • Temporary (feat. Tink)
  • Stay Right Here (feat. Mick Jenkins and Xavier Omar)
  • Next Door (feat. Lucki)
  • Busy / Sirens (feat. theMIND)
  • Broken Girls
  • Life
  • Calligraphy
  • Fighter (feat. KAINA)
  • Smile
  • Grey
  • Prom / King
  • Heaven All Around Me
  • Free Samples (feat. Cheflee)
  • One Way
  • an Interlude Called 'Circus' (feat. Eryn Allen Kane)
  • Fearmonger (feat. Daoud)
  • Soldier (feat. Pivot Gang)
  • If I Had A Dollar (feat. Benjamin Earl Turner)
  • Stop That
  • Westside Bound 3 (feat. Joseph Chilliams)
  • Excited
  • World in My Hands (feat. Smino and Legit)
  • Bucket List (feat. Matthew Santos)
  • Rich Don't Stop
  • Mrs. Whoever
  • Something in the Water
  • Where Its At
  • Symmetry
  • United Center

Rexx Life Raj

  • what am i afraid of?
  • Couple Months in LA

Jean Deaux

  • Moody! (feat. Saba)
  • TWUG (That's What U Get)
  • Body
  • Who Dis!
  • Speakerphone (Trust Issues)

Mynameisntjmack

  • American Spirit

Pivot Gang

  • Who at the Door?
  • Bad Boys (feat. Smino)
  • No Vest (feat. Mick Jenkins)
  • Edward Scissorhands (feat. Jean Deaux)
  • Mortal Kombat (feat. Kari Faux)
  • Mathmatics (feat. femdot.)
  • SoHo Freestyle (feat. Kota The Friend)
  • Houdini (feat. theMIND)
  • Death Row
  • Hero
  • Bible
  • Clark Kent
  • Studio Ground Rules
  • Jason Statham, Pt. 2
  • Aang
  • 911
  • Blood

Joseph Chilliams

  • Unfriendly Black Hotties (feat. Saba)
  • Shake My Ass (feat. Jamila Woods)
  • Wishlist
  • B2KK
  • Burn Book (feat. Mama Yaya and Sen Morimoto)
  • Fergie
  • Opening Theme (intro to Henry Church)

    MFn Melo
  • Yallwhadinthere
  • Damn Crazy
  • Unsung (feat. Qari)
  • Mood Swing
  • Vindikation
  • Rollin
  • White Cheddar
  • Ociety

Benjamin Earl Turner

  • A Necessary Skit
  • DUI
  • Urgency
  • Vanilla Ice
  • Ignorants
  • Bad Nature (feat. MFnMelo)
  • Free.99
  • Nine / Y2K
  • Lake Erie

Frsh Waters

  • OTW (feat. Ohana Bam)
  • Off Instinct

Patrick Paige II

  • Intro (Hard Times)
  • Runway (feat. Ohana Bam)

Seiji Oda

  • She Go! [ocaso]

    P.O.S.
  • Pieces/Ruins (feat. Busdriver and Dwynell Roland)
  • Thieves/Kings
  • Infinite Scroll (feat. Manchita and Open Mike Eagle)
  • Gravedigger (feat. Angel Davanport)

 

Featuring daedaePIVOT:

Saba

  • Papaya (feat. daedaePIVOT)

MFnMelo

  • Watcha Feel (feat. daedaePIVOT)

 

As 'if only' (lofi/instrumental music):

  • Washed Away (with Lomme, Elk Beats, and Kayba thru Lofi Girl)
  • 4am (with Kayba and Lomme thru Lofi Girl)
  • Yesterday's News (with Enluv thru Chillhop)
  • Midnight Haze (with Lenny Loops and 18YOMAN thru Lofi Chill Records)
  • Palm Springs (with Sebastian Kamae thru Steezyasfuck)
  • Horizon (with Sebastian Kamae thru Steezyasfuck)
  • Lost in Thought (with letmode thru Steezyasfuck)
  • Wintermint (with letmode and berlo thru Steezyasfuck)
  • Nightcap (with Kayba, Lomme, and Elk Beats)
  • Safe and Sound (with Lomme and Elk Beats)
  • 8pm (with Foam and Lenny Loops)
  • Starry (EP with Slo Loris thru Musicbed)
  • Due North (with Slo Loris thru Musicbed)
  • Starry (with Slo Loris thru Musicbed)
  • Sky Meadow (with Kayba, Lomme, and Elk Beats)
  • Night Rain (with Kayba, Lomme, and Elk Beats)
  • Ask Laura (with letmode thru Kindbrew Records)
  • Coffee Guy (with letmode thru Kindbrew Records)
  • Wine and Dine (with letmode thru Kindbrew Records)
  • Crest (thru freshgoodies)
  • Flower (with letmode)
  • Dear Diary (with letmode and berlo)
  • Blueberry Jam (with letmode)
  • Dreamscape (with letmode)
  • Forest Lane (with letmode)
  • Evening Brew (with letmode)
  • Remember to Forget (with letmode)

 

Mixing Credits:

Pivot Gang

  • Who At The Door
  • SoHo Freestyle (feat. Kota The Friend)
  • Houdini (feat. theMIND)

Rexx Life Raj

  • what am i afraid of?

Frsh Waters

  • Champion
  • YWU