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TM Juke - solo artist and producer and co-writer of Alice Russell - and Robert Luis - A&R and co-owner of Tru Thoughts - have joint forces for their new project Me&You.
From start to finish the album "Floating Heavy" reaches out, slapping auditory senses around, encapsulating the listener into a head-nodding, toe tapping dancefloor-stomping trance that won't let go, taking you on a journey through an eclectic spectrum from breakbeat, soul, jazz, dub step, broken beat, reggae, disco, and drum & bass.
"Brown Paper Bag", a reggae cover of the Roni Size/Reprazent d'n'b classic, and "The Hoop Loop" have already received a number of outstanding reviews and reactions as well as support from Rob Da Bank on Radio 1 and more. This is followed by "Sneaker Thief" with its infectious horns and disco, breakbeat style. There's even a little nod to acid house, but with Egyptian percussion being tweaked through the filters on "Elephant Takeover". The album then takes a switch to drum & bass with the afro influenced "Wouri River" and then into calypso drum & bass (!) with "Last Night". Look out for forthcoming heavyweight remixes of these tracks by Redeyes (Bingo Beats) and Benny Page (now signed to Shy FX's Soundboy label).
"Ze Zam" is a tempo-changing Brazilian batucada battle weapon and "Got Any R&B?" is slightly noisier but still with a little twist. "Random Search" blends dub step, reggae bass lines and some Bollywood grooves to make a rolling track. This groove is also the basis for "Space Lizards", the hidden tune, which finds Young Max from Dirty Diggers taking on the vocal parts.
All of this results in a spectacular musical array of powerfully dynamic tunes set to keep dancefloors across the world buzzing, an archetypical summer album!
Tracklisting:
01. Me&You Intro (0:25)
02. Brown Paper Bag (4:42)
03. The Hoop Loop (4:02)
04. Sneaker Thief (5:36)
05. Brighton Request Line (1:32)
06. Elephant Takeover (6:07)
07. Wouri River (7:30)
08. Last Night (8:01)
09. Ze Zam (6:54)
10. Brighton Request Line (1:03)
11. Got Any R&B? (5:33)
12. Random Search (6:01)
13. One More Tune (0:32)
14. Last Night (2:41)
FORMAT: CD
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