“Loose” by Kamil Ghaouti has the kind of backstory that gives a premiere even more reason to exist, because this is the first record in more than 11 years of releasing music in which the artist puts Kamil Ghaouti’s own voice on one of his tracks. That might sound like a small technical detail from the outside, but anyone who has made music for long enough knows how big that decision can feel.
We are premiering “Loose” ahead of its official release on our SoundCloud page, and the track feels like a good fit for that kind of first listen because it captures a producer stepping into a new part of his own process. Friends and family had been telling him for years to use his voice, but he kept leaving that side of the record to other singers because he did not think his own vocals were ready.
This one changed that, and that is the part I like most here.
PRE-SAVE link to the track here!
“Loose” does not feel like Kamil suddenly trying to become a vocalist in some huge, overthought way and instead feels more natural than that. The vocal is part of the texture, part of the feeling, and part of the reason the record has its own identity. It sounds like someone is finally letting the track decide what it needs instead of trying to perfect the idea into something less personal.
A First Vocal Record After 11 Years
There is a different kind of confidence in putting your own voice on a track after spending years building music without it, which is more like giving yourself permission to stop waiting for the perfect version of a skill before using it.
That comes through in the way the story around “Loose” was described.
The record made him realize that sometimes the better move is to feel the idea out rather than stay stuck in perfectionism, and that is a much more useful lesson than pretending every vocal has to sound like it came from a hired specialist.
Ghaouti made the song with NAMANA (@namanafr) after Maël from the duo visited him in Los Angeles about a year and a half ago. It was also the first time he had worked in this particular style, which gives the record another small reset point. The track is personal because of the vocal, but it also marks a wider creative turn, with more music in this direction already on the way.
Fully Self-Made, From Writing To Release
Another part of the story worth paying attention to is how hands-on the whole release is.
“Loose” was produced with NAMANA, written, sung, mixed, and mastered by the artist, and is now released and promoted through his own label, Kameleon Records.
That kind of workflow can be exhausting, but it also gives the record a clear fingerprint. Nothing about the rollout feels detached from the person making the music. The same creative circle that built the track is carrying it through the finish line, which makes the SoundCloud premiere feel less like a promo box being checked and more like an early look at a real shift in direction.
“Loose” is a personal record, but it does not need to sit in a fragile place. It is a producer letting his voice enter the music, working with friends, trusting a new direction, and building the release through his own label from start to finish.
Magnetic Magazine is premiering “Loose” ahead of its official release now on our SoundCloud page.
Will Vance is a professional music producer who has been involved in the industry for the better part of a decade and has been the managing editor at Magnetic Magazine since mid-2022. In that time period, he has published thousands of articles on music production, industry think pieces and educational articles about the music industry. Over the last decade as a professional music producer, Will Vance has also ran multiple successful and highly respected record labels in the industry, including Where The Heart Is Records as well as having launched a new label with a focus on community through Magnetic Magazine. When not running these labels or producing his own music, Vance is likely writing for other top industry sites like Waves or the Hyperbits Masterclass or working on his upcoming book on mindfulness in music production. On the rare chance he's not thinking about music production, he's probably running a game of Dungeons and Dragons with his friends which he has been the dungeon master for for many years.
