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Sampa The Great
The Return
Indies exclusive LP is on 'transparent green' + 'transparent red' coloured vinyl.
Sampa The Great creates a sense of home on her debut album - 'The Return'. A characterful record, its reference points range from classic hip-hop to ancient Southern African sounds. Built on four years of personal and musical soul-searching, it’s an assured statement, the product of meaningful musical connections and of Sampa having to redefine her self-identity away from the comforts of family and old friends.On “The Return” Sampa has enlisted a string of esteemed collaborators and peers to create the album.
Mixed by Jonwayne (of Stones Throw notoriety), MsM (Skepta/Boy Better Know) and Andrei Eremin (GRAMMY-nominated engineer for Hiatus Kaiyote and Chet Faker), productions are by Silentjay, Slowthai producer Kwes Darko, Clever Austin (Perrin Moss of Hiatus Kiayote), Blue Lab Beats and Syreniscreamy. The album also features collaborations with Ecca Vandal and London jazz collective Steam Down. Many of them are the fruits of the network Sampa has built since first making waves in 2015 - following time spent studying in San Francisco and LA - as a new arrival in Sydney’s hip-hop and jazz freestyle nights. Since then, she’s performed with Denzel Curry on his breakout track ‘Black Balloons’ for Triple J’s ‘Like A Version’, and toured globally, supporting the likes of Kendrick Lamar, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Thundercat, Joey Bada$$, Hiatus Kaiyote, Noname, Ibeyi and Little Simz.
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Bonobo
Linked
Bonobo returns with new single ‘linked’. the dance floor-ready new release from the la-based producer (aka simon green) is an atmospheric slow-builder, perfectly tuned for festivals this summer. It follows his compiling of the inaugural “fabric presents” compilation, which featured a new song ‘ibrik’ (picked as annie mac’s hottest record in the world on bbc radio 1), and comes after the career-defining 2017 album migration, which reached the uk top 5, received two grammy nominations and saw him headline festivals and sell out multiple global tours with an expanded live show. the striking artwork featuring green’s own photography. It lands as he is in the midst of a string of high-profile dj sets as part of his continuing ‘outlier’ series, launched at iconic new york club output, as well as playing and curating an array of nights and festivals on either side of the atlantic. He recently curated the friday printworks stage at field day, featuring the likes of leon vynehall, actress and kelly lee owens, as well as curating day one at nuits sonores, and stages at love saves the day and we love green festival, along with outlier shows at de school, amsterdam, montreal and dj dates in são paulo and santiago. looking ahead, he’s due to curate further outlier shows at offsonar and dour festival and to dj at melt festival before heading to north america for more festival dates and a string of headline outlier shows in montreal, chicago, denver, san francisco and brooklyn, featuring support from tokimonsta, dj harvey, derrick carter and mall grab among others. It’s the latest chapter in a dj career that’s seen him play rapturously received sets at the likes of sonar, fabric, and smartbar amongst many other places, while his two boiler room sets recorded in new york and london have exploded with millions of views each.
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12"
Mr Scruff
Keep It Unreal (20th Anniversary)
Scruff's debut for Ninja Tune, and it's just one of those essential LPs for fans of quirky, jazzy upbeat downbeat grooves. Includes the massive trad-jazz-house anthem (and advert favourite) "Get A Move On", as well as "Honeydew", "Jus Jus" with Roots Manuva and the silly "Shanty Town" and "Fish".
A product of post-acid house Manchester, Mr Scruff is a complete one-off; a cheeky innovator. His debut album is a bold statement, distinctive and confident. "Keep It Unreal" oscillates wildly between opposing styles - one moment Scruff's in deep, down-tempo dinner jazz territory, the next he's in Coldcut mode, chopping out superb big beat breaks with naughty hooklines to get you pogoing. At one extreme is the wacko humour of Spandex Man, bolshi breakbeat and a hooky 1920s jazz loop that'll make you grin. And then there's the even more ridiculous "Shanty Town", with samples of a Jacknory story about a whale. At the other end of the scale, is Scruff's accomplished acid jazz - like the serene, trip-hoppy "Midnight Feast" or the smoothie cocktail number "Honeydew", with it's loungey female vocals. This man is out there, the Salvador Dali of beats and breaks.
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LP
Jordan Rakei
Origin
Both LPs include a download code.
The third full length album from Jordan Rakei.
Soulful, intimate and expansive all at once, Jordan Rakei’s third album, “Origin”, cuts straight to the point, in every sense of the word. The melodies are brighter, the sound is bigger and the vision behind it more finely-tuned. Switching up from the highly personal and intimate portrait he painted with 2017’s “Wallflower”, which was a way of grappling with his experience of anxiety and introversion, “Origin” is overtly inspired by dystopian visions of our future - notably Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. “I’m worried that we’re losing a sense of connection,” explains Jordan, with many of the album lyrics exploring technological growth, and how it affects our sense of humanity. For example, new single ‘Say Something’ is “about speaking up for what you believe in”, a call to arms for future humans to stand up against the AI systems which govern a now-dystopian world. It follows recent single ‘Mind’s Eye’, which envisions a future world where malfunctioning tech implanted in the human body has flooded the users mind with projections of chaos. He meditates daily, something he adopted partly in response to his issues with anxiety, and something which has shaped his worldview and informed his writing and production process.
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