TKG Music 005: Kuma- What It's Not
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A) Kuma ft Juakali- What It's Not
AA1) Kuma ft Amalia- Fall
AA2) Kuma ft Juakali- What It's Not (Grievous Angel Remix)
12" and digital with added bonuses.
Ten years we've been doing this now and it makes sense to us to let loose what I think is our finest statement of intent to date.
We count ourselves blessed after ten years to have been able to work with a great many wonderful people and to be able to put out music now.
A decade of keeping up the good fight against conservative thinking in electronic music and being true to that, so with that in mind, this is What It's Not.
I'll leave you to make the call on the riddim and just tell you it's one of my favorites. Swing, my friends, swing.
Now let's talk about these people for whom we are honored by their presence on this excursion.
Almost six years ago, I got it into my head to bring Kode 9 to Vancouver. We split a weekend tour with Dave Q of Dub War and as I'm on the phone with him, he keeps telling me about their resident MC, a guy named Juakali. Fast forward a bit and Jua is in many ways the voice of North American dubstep. Dubwar resident, Sub Swara mic rider, solo artist of a series nature (Why have you not copped his solo album yet?). He's blessed a non-traditional rhythm with something different, a rallying cry that we're quite stoked to bring to you.
http://www.foreignfamiliar.com
I've known Amalia Townsend since she first almost ran me over trying to get in the door to see Ursula Rucker, many years ago. She remains one of electronic dance music's most unique voices, this inter-galactic soul sister of ours. Fresh off the release of her album “Art Slave” on Tokyo Dawn and beats with Opolopo, At Jazz, Domu and Afronaut, she's gone cosmic on this one, re-making the What It's Not rhythm as "Fall." It's a love song for the dance floor.
http://WWW.THEAMALIA.COM
We have long been fans of Sheffield's Grievous Angel, one of the few artists out there really linking the lineages of noise and industrial with UK Bass/sound system culture. So for us, asking him to take a swing at Juakali's versioning of What It's Not made perfect sense. He's turned it into this lovely abstract two step thing that hits hard enough to draw blood.
Out soon?
Distro by Cargo UK.
Mastered at Transition.
TKG:10: Still fucking up your bassbins and making you look to the sky.
http://www.thekonspiracygroup.com
