Freestyle Fellowship - Innercity GriotsInnercity Griots, the second album from Freestyle Fellowship, is perhaps *the* essential West Coast leftfield rap album of the early 90s. Released in 1993 on 4th & Broadway, its a towering, progressive hip hop masterpiece that expanded raps boundaries through lyrical elevation and production innovation. Their talent was ahead of everybody else by light years. This is pure b boy jazz. Format Notes: 2021 double vinyl reissue, 140g vinyl, includes Pure

a short beach stroll from the epicentre of the bossa nova universe

Lattimore met Slowdive’s Neil Halstead: “A friend introduced us because she knew how big of a fan I was and Neil and I had a little chat

it was clearly an old piece - likely made in the mad

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pulsing music that weaves an ecstatic line from raw electric blues

“so that was the reason for the name ‘Ever Decreasing Circles’

Before its mainstream consumption in the late 1970s

It was almost like recording on a cassette tape but then we introduced those multi tracks to a new kind of mix scenario

bad attitude and near-subliminal pop-based-shape- shifting

They're crazy enough to be sincere about their musical Pleasureland and they want to share their discovery

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she composed this piano music secretly and her nephew and confidant Geoffrey captured it on his tape recorder