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Thursday, 18 October 2012
Albums
Wrongtom is one of those artists who finds his strongest creativity by bouncing off other people. It worked a treat with Roots Manuva, and now he's teamed up with long time friend Deemas J for an album that blends reggae, dub and dancehall. Not knowing much about these areas of music, I have learned that it can be dangerous to mix these elements - but what emerges here is a strongly positive piece of work that looks at getting the positivity of London across. The bass heavy 'Riot Ting' deals wit...
Thursday, 08 September 2011
Albums
Tru Thoughts label owner Robert Luis has written a piece on Will Holland, aka Quantic, to go with this handsome best of. It celebrates a decade of Holland's music for the label, and puts into perspective what an incredible imagination Holland has, able to turn his attention to a number of different styles of music. Many of them are here, spread over 32 tracks on 2 CDs, and showing how he has been able to master soul, reggae, dub, Latin and break beat under a number of different aliases. The clas...