Welcome to a special guest-edited edition of the Afternoon Delight. You'll see a version of this newsletter here and there when we happen upon the opportunity to sit down and chat with a few of the better people and organizations out there. These gents just so happen to live in one of the Flow buildings in Florida.

Eddy and Daygee met on their high school football team. It probably wasn’t on their coach's bingo card that they would go on to form the music-producing, DJ powerhouse of a duo that is Paperwater. But the stars aligned, and the world of music is better for it. Paperwater has moved through many versions of itself, kicking things off as a hip-hop group with an emcee. And like its music, the artists behind it are fluid and ever evolving. All of that is to say, we’d like to extend a big thanks to the Sunset High School football team for bringing these two geniuses together. And to the geniuses themselves for calling Flow home as part of the Flow Artists in Residency program. Over to you, Paperwater.

Flow Trip: Your go-to song when singing in the shower?

Daygee: “Feel The Same” off the FlowWater EP.
Eddy: I’ll go left and say something nostalgic, maybe early 2000s R&B. It depends on the day.

FT: What do you hope people feel when they listen to your music?

Paperwater: We hope people feel present. Grounded but uplifted. Like they can move, breathe, and let go for a moment. Our goal is to create a space, whether on a dance floor, in headphones, or alone at home, where people feel connected to themselves and to each other.

FT: If you could send one song to represent humanity to aliens, what would it be?

Paperwater: We would choose something timeless and emotional. A song that carries love, curiosity, and rhythm all at once. That song would be “Girl I Want You” by Paperwater. Hehe.

FT: Tell us about the creative process behind FlowWater.

Daygee: We started working on FlowWater right after our tour ended in the first week of October. We had just returned to Miami from France and were feeling overwhelmed from traveling and not having a real home base for almost a year. One of the first things we did while settling in was sample different parts of the building we were living in. We wanted to do something unique by using environmental sounds to create dance music.

In the mornings, we would use the gym and sauna, which helped anchor us into a flow state. That feeling carried directly into the music. Each track on the project flows into the next like a DJ set. We want listeners to get lost in the journey and enter a true flow state through dance music.

Eddy: FlowWater came from a very fluid mindset. There were no rigid rules and no pressure to fit into a genre. We were thinking a lot about movement, water as energy, culture, and connection. Some tracks started from rhythms, others from textures or emotions. A lot of it was built in real time by DJing, testing ideas live, then bringing that feeling back into the studio. The album is less about perfection and more about capturing moments.

FT: How can music connect and unite people?

Paperwater: Music bypasses intellect and speaks directly to the body and the soul. It has invited us into spaces all over the world and opened many doors. We continue to use music to connect, unite communities, and look inward.

Something to listen to. You do you.

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Daygee’s got his own thing going in these parts. You can get a glimpse inside the mind of the artist on his very own Substack right here.

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