The two dubstep pioneers at the top of their game. Truly an album, the music is multi-levelled — dark as anything at times, but engrossingly varied and emotionally shaded, always on the move.
Extra to the LP, with a magnificent, epic, head-scrambling remix, more spaced and spooked than the original. Shackleton’s dream liturgy fully unfolds — an eerie, garbled sublimity, a kind of black-magic plainsong.
With Ekoplekz and Andres mixes.
The harpist from Christian Wallumrod’s ensemble, with the Magical Orchestra singer, plus viola and nyckelharpa — performing Purcell, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, and a couple of Susanna’s.
Tremendous, transformative interpretation of the Bassies at Studio One — mournful, trenchant, rocking, heavy, dubwise… bad.
Killer, full-steam-ahead, Channel One rub a dub, with startling effects, produced by Bebo Phillips and Clive Jarrett.
Celebrated dubplate version of DEB’s Promised Land; and Earl 16 on Trial And Crosses.
Spine-tinglingly yearning, yet dignified, rootical rocksteady classic — one of Phil Pratt’s top tunes, limpidly delivered by Lynn Taitt — with an ace Tommy McCook version.
Rapturous, turbulent, frank settings of the poet Gunvor Hofmo, and themes of human longing, loss and wonderment before evil and beauty. With pals from Supersilent, Motorpsycho, Madrugada, Deathprod.
Irresistible reggaeficatory bazookaings of Manu Dibango’s Soul Makossa, upping the old-school funk, and garbling extra mamas.
Trunk’s new soundtrack label kicks off with Adrian Corker’s reflective music for Tim Plester’s doc: an evocative mixture of subtle ambience with inventive modern composition, and spoken word and field recordings.
Music by Michaels Cole and Jessett for the beloved seventies finger-puppet show, with Fingermouse, Gulliver the seagull, Scampi, and Flash the tortoise.
With the inspirational Elevate Our Minds.
A Richard Evans production from 1979, between Chicago and LA, crowning Linda’s years masterminding Natalie Cole’s success.