Roots Manuva - Slime And Reason [2008]

Artist...............: Roots Manuva
Album................: Slime & Reason
Genre................: Electronic
Source...............: NMR
Year.................: 2008
Ripper...............: NMR
Codec................: LAME 3.97
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: Extreme, (avg. bitrate: 318kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, then you will no doubt have been eagerly anticipating the new Roots Manuva LP Slime & Reason just as much as I have. Officially out on 1st September on Big Dada

Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva returns with his fourth full album and the man's voice and musical vision sounds as fresh as ever on this marvellous, freewheeling summation of his career so far.

Smith's inspiration for the new record has come from looking back to his roots, the music that moved him even before he heard hip hop. "With this record I was trying to tune into that old Channel One, Studio One aesthetic. Lord knows what they were drinking, smoking or eating or what they were doing or what was on their mind but to me that was a special period in music. Today, with the technology that's available it's pretty easy to make generic music, music that sounds like everything else. But to tap into a unique aesthetic, to make a long player that is of its own world is a harder job. How do we make it have an individual sound?"

There's no shortage of individuality on "Slime & Reason". While it's a record that commentators are already comparing to "Run Come Save Me" for its range, depth and impact, everything here sounds as unique, as utterly one-off, as the mind of the man who created it.

Manuva's own productions range from the skanking carnival anthem "Again & Again," through the melancholy funk of "C.R.U.F.F.," the electro-Bach rhythms of "Kick Up Ya Foot," the lof-fi Gospel of "A Man's Talk," the roots stylings of "The Show Must Go On" and the analog-synth attack of "It's Me Oh Lord." But as a vocalist, Roots has also been reinvigorated working with young producers Toddla T and Metronomy. There are three Toddla tracks here (including "Buff Nuff," the first single taken from the album) and they represent some of the funniest, most loose-limbed music Rodney has produced in years. In addition, Metronomy's "Let The Spirit" is one of the standouts of the record - a gorgeous piece of "blue-eyed" electro-funk which will be soundtracking our lives for a long time to come.

It's best to let Roots Manuva sum up the fearless, iconoclastic approach to his music which means he continues to be one of the most vital, exciting and straight-up honest artists working in the UK today. "You got to sing like no one's listening. You gotta fart like there's no one there to smell it!"


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Tracklisting
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01. (00:04:06) - 01 Again & Again
02. (00:03:53) - 02 C.R.U.F.F
03. (00:03:14) - 03 Do Yah Bodda Mi
04. (00:04:37) - 04 Let The Spirit
05. (00:03:43) - 05 Kick Up Ya Feet
06. (00:03:46) - 06 A Man's Talk
07. (00:02:15) - 07 Buff Nuff
08. (00:03:33) - 08 It's Me Oh Lord
09. (00:05:23) - 09 2 Much 2 Soon
10. (00:03:10) - 10 Do 4 Self
11. (00:06:07) - 11 The Show Must Go On
12. (00:03:04) - 12 I'm A New Man
13. (00:03:57) - 13 Well Alright
14. (00:03:48) - 14 The Struggle


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