Suff Daddy (MPM, Berlin) and Lefto (Brownswood, Brussels) re-edit the Charles Earland classic "Coming To You Live" from 1980. Suff Daddy turns the song into a typical Suff jam with sick vocal samples, airhorns and micro korg licks. Skol! The Belgian beat ambassador takes a different route and re-rubs the song in classic Loft style. Limited promo-only run.
And the original is also being reissued, details here:
Charles Earland / Sylvia Striplin - Coming To You Live / Searchin'
Just finished processing a fresh shipment, check the list below for a selection of some of the new titles. Â Also included some bits that arrived on Friday from Wrap, Ninja Tune & Big Dada.
Best,
Dustin, Cian, Jim, Bobby & Brent
NINJA TUNE XX BOXSETS
We had copies of the Ninja Tune XX Boxset arrive last week after the email went out and they have since all sold, we are however trying to source some more. Â Please let us know if you would like one as they wont stick around.
VINYL
Tato Torres Y Yerbabuena - La Casita De Chema 7†(ALALA RECORDS)
Leela James/Lauryn Hill/Los Chicharrons - Long Time Comin' / Sweetest Thing 7†(VIBES)
The Apples - In The Air 7†(Freestyle)
Unknown Artist - Fuss N Fight / Version For Version (WAR017)
Geraldo Frisina - Join The Dance 2LP (Schema)
Colm K & FreeStyleMellowship - Dancing Skulls 10" (BSTRD Boots)
Todd Terje  - TT Edits Vol. 1 12"
V/a - Salsa Explosion 2LP (Strut/Fania)
Smiley The Ghetto Child - I'm Legend 12" (The 16 Chapel)
Richy Pitch - Ye Fre Mi 12" (BBE)
Onur Engin - Origins EP 12†(PLIMSOLL)
V/A - Keb Darge & Little Edith's Legendary Rocki RnB 2LP (BBE)
V/A - Ninja Tune XX Vol. 4 12" (Ninja Tune)
V/A - Ninja Tune XX Vol. 6 12" (Ninja Tune)
Flying Lotus - Pattern + Grid 12" (Warp)
Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom - Dupper Writer 2LP (Big Dada)
Eric Lau - Makin' Sound LP (Kilawatt)
Dam Funk - Hood Pass Intact feat. MC Eiht 12" (Stonesthrow)
Ramadanman - Grab Somebody / Mir 12" (White)
Jimmy Edgar - NXTLVLNXTLVL / My Balance 12"(Nonplus)
James Blake - Klavierwerke EP 12" (R&S)
Maxmillion Dunbar - Cool Water 2LP (Ramp)
Benny Ill & J.King - Kosmic 78 / Lithium Soular 12" (Deep Medi)
Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes - The Love I Lost (Theo Parrish RMX)
The Fresh Up Players – Race Relations 7†(Fresh Up)
Subatomic Sound / Ari Up / Lee Perry - Hello, Hell Is Very Low 7†(SUBATOMIC SOUND)
Sofrito Presents - Soweto Disco EP 12†(SOFRITO SUPER SINGLES)
Erobique & Jacques Palminger - Totaler Spinner 12†(STAATSAKT)
Various - Disc 'O' Lypso 2LP (TRANS AIR)
RESTOCKS
The Simonsound - Reverse Engineering LP (FIRST WORD RECORDS)
Robbie M & Terry Patton - Tri-Fire Vol.1 12†(PEOPLES POTENTIAL UNLIMITED)
Mr Scruff & Kaidi Tatham/MCDE/Andres – E11 12†(PRIME NUMBERS)
Flying Lotus – 1983 LP (Plug Research)
Marc Rapson - Dark Vs Light 12†(FUTURISTICA MUSIC)
Buddy Sativa – Mystic Voyage 7†(Favourite)
Mr Scruff - Pickled Spider 12" (Ninja Tune)
Unknown Artist - Reggae Ambassador / Rising 12" (War)
Unknown Artist - Blaze Dem / Find My Way 12" (War)
Quest - Smooth Skin (Deep Medi)
Blackpocket - Ur A Sta 10" (Fat City)
Miles Bonny - Miles Gets Open 7" (MPM)
COMPACT DISCS
Aloe Blacc - Good Things CD (Stonesthrow)
Madlib - Madlib Medicine Show #8: Advanced Jazz CD (Stonesthrow)
El Michel's Affair - Walk On By  (Truth & Soul)
Gonjasufi - The Caliph's Tea Party CD (Warp)
Dam-Funk - Adolescent Funk CD (Stonesthrow)
Roots Manuva Meets Wrongtom - Dupper Writer CD (Big Dada)
V/A - Ninja Tune XX Vol. 4 12" (Ninja Tune)
1. Butterfly Crab Walk
2. Chin Up
3. Duppy Writer (Skit)
4. Worl’ A Mine
5. Big Tings Redone
6. Jah Warriors
7. Proper Tings Juggled
8. Dutty Rut
9. Dub Decay
10. Lick Up Ya Foot
11. Rebuff
12. Son of Bodda
13. Motion 82
Fire up the barbecue, crack a Dragon Stout, mix up yer Guinness punch, carry out whatever cliched act of Caribbeanism you can think of, because it’s summer at last and a new Roots Manuva album is here! And with artwork from the legendary Tony McDermott (who was responsible for the illustrations on Greensleeves classics by the likes of Scientist, Mad Professor and the famous “Carnival of Reggae†12†sleeve) it’s a thing of beauty.
Okay, let’s clarify that ‘new’ a little. What you hold in your hands is in fact largely a series of re-works by a talented producer who, for reasons best known to himself, goes by the moniker Wrong Tom. Big Dada first came across Wrong Tom a few months before the releaase of Roots Manuva’s album, “Slime & Reasonâ€. The DJ and producer (whose previous credits includes work for Lynval Golding’s Pama International, Trojan Records and his Staines homeboys Hard Fi) got in touch asking if he could bash out a dub version of the lead single for that campaign, “Buff Nuffâ€. As it wasn’t costing and we’re cheap like that we said he could have a go on spec. When we heard the result we immediately commissioned a series of mixes which, turned round in about a fortnight, became the bonus disc for the limited edition version of “Slime & Reasonâ€. The responses we received were pretty ecstatic so we asked Tom if he would be up for expanding the work into a full album.
Two years on and Tom, with moral support from Mr Manuva, has turned in an album which covers all four of Roots Manuva’s main albums, plus tracks from “Dub Come Save Me†and “Alternately Deep†and a brand new collaboration with Mr Manuva and Ricky Ranking on lead single “Jah Warriorsâ€. Tom decided to re-imagine each track as if his re-work was in fact the orignal version of the tune from a previous decade. Hence “Motion 5000†becomes classic roots groove “Motion ’82,†whereas something like “Rebuff†sees “Buff Nuff†return as vintage digi-dub. The project is approached with such conviction and skill that many of the tunes become hard to place in their orignal context, so it really does feel as if these funky, skanking, shuffling little numbers are in fact the ground zero of the Manuva experience.
And while this album is, in effect, a bit of summer fun to keep us all satisfied until Roots comes through with a whole new batch of material, the re-works are so well done, and lock so tight with Rodney’s vox that they actually achieve more than anyone could hope for. Often when people are dealing with Mr Rodney Smith they’re so concerned with his ground-breaking productions, his convoluted back story and his Genuine UK Maverick status that it’s easy to forget just what a good MC he is, how clever with words, how funny and insightful, how relaxed and easy and plain beautiful he sounds on the beat. It’s all here, one of the best UK lyricists and voices of the last decade as you’ve never quite heard him before, but probably secretly always wanted to. Sit back and enjoy while the sun still shines…
To celebrate the release of Eru's live DVD ‘Great News For The Modern Man’, Tuborg & Juice present Eru Dangerspiel live at the Auckland Town Hall.
The 30+ strong band & choir led by multi-instrumentalist Riki Gooch will be performing their dirty, bottom heavy funk & psychedelic rhythm & blues.
Helmed by Riki Gooch (TrinityRoots) the band will feature Jonathan Crayford, Whirimako Black, Anna Coddington, Lewis McCallum, Ria Hall, Ki...ng Kapisi, Submariner, Mara TK (Electric Wire Hustle), Chip Matthews & Isaac Aesili (both Opensouls), Joe Lindsay, Toby Laing & Scott Towers (all Fat Freddy’s Drop), Mike Fabulous (The Black Seeds), Ned Ngatae (Dimmer), Chris O'Connor, Patrick Pihama (Riki's uncle), Jeff Henderson, Miguel Fuentes, Anthony Donaldson, Ed Zuchollo (Harbour City Electric), Olga Gryniewicz with the Dangerspiel Choir & more Dangerspiel “family†member sneaky guest appearances.
Topped with space crunk & 2 screens of visual gold.
Headlong, fierce, banked rasta drumming fit to discombobulate any kind of system, with sweet, jazzy trombone riding it down, bubbling bass driving it home, and all of it classically dubwise.
Wareika Hill Sounds is the contemporary roots reggae project of Calvin Cameron — mainstay of the original Light Of Saba line-up, the genius behind Lambs Bread Collie — who to this day lives above the headquarters of the Mystic Revelation Of Rastafari, in the Wareika Hill district of Kingston, Jamaica. In the great pedagogical traditions of the multi-cultural Light Of Saba, and before that Count Ossie, this new recording runs together two JA musical traditions — a kind of drumming (and drum) brought from the Congo, and the island’s variation of calypso — into a thundering grounation charge. As always, the Skatalite’s trombone-playing is majestic: deadly, gripping, deeply cultivated.
The dub is tremendous, too. Expertly mastered and cut at Dubplates And Mastering in Berlin, and beautifully pressed at Pallas, for maximum soundboy worries. With a lovely printed sleeve, designed by Will Bankhead. ‘From the college where you get your musical knowledge,’ as I-Roy would say, in a Leninist style and fashion — ‘shower on the hour every hour… Knowledge Is Power.’
Related Releases:
Wareika Hill Sounds - Wareika Hill Sounds CD / LP (Honest Jon's)
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