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​Mostly we put our daily recommendations here for the blog readers among you, although occasionally we go longform.
Reading about music is a bit like looking at pictures of food - not nearly half as much fun as getting involved, so we scribble a brief intro to hopefully whet your appetite but you're better off just hitting play. Not very "slow" I know but there's a lot of music to check these days & hopefully you'll find the recommendations a handy filter.
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25/10/2019 0 Comments

thatmanmonkz - Non Zero Sum Game (Shadeleaf Music)

WHAT THE COVER LOOKS LIKE:
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WHAT WE SAY:

Good house music albums are hard to find but I'm happy to report you can add thatmanmonkz' for his own Shadeleaf label, to the rather short list as he embraces the genre's black music roots, mines all the right, classic tropes but gives them a personal twist & dispenses with LP filler to put some Sheffield soul boy bump into the weekend & beyond.
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WHAT THE PRESS RELEASE SAYS:


It’s a strange new post-everything musical landscape we occupy. The machines - you could argue - have been playing the humans for some time, and the conversation has become pretty one-sided. The focus now is metrics not moments. A million transcendent dance floor events condensed into monetisable data, the compost in which ‘likes’ and ‘solid socials’ are grown, but little else.

Being regularly bludgeoned with forgettable new music has taken its toll. But not everyone is singing from that hymn sheet. Sheffield's Thatmanmonkz enjoyed the apprenticeship at "House PLC" more than the opportunity to progress to middle management.

Itchy musical feet meant extended exploration of fertile avenues of interest like the Madison Washington & Pan Amsterdam Hip Hop projects, meanwhile the pull of the 4/4 was never far from the studio door, and, all accomplished with an assured versatility that shines through. Musical alliances have been formed in the disparate but related playgrounds of Sheffield, Detroit, Berkeley and Atlanta, all underpinned by an emphasis on seeking out collaborations and gigs which represented a real exchange of energies, rather than a bank raid.

Letting things percolate in this more measured way means we’ve arrived here, a follow up of sorts to 2016’s ‘Columbusing’. This is 'monkz allowing the ear ringing of gigs to feedback organically into bright dance floor flashes, which by virtue of their careful crafting are destined to last much longer.

It’s a pick 'em and stick 'em ride of individual gems and a cohesive whole too. The opposite of thrown together, this has been worked and weathered, naturally.

The House always wins, but sometimes... just sometimes.

 
Credits

All tracks Engineered, Arranged, Produced, and Mixed by thatmanmonkz.

1 written by S.Moncrieff, P.Simpson, M.Ameer, L.Thomas. 2 written by S.Moncrieff, S.Covington. 3 written by S.Moncrieff, P.Simpson.6 written by S.Moncrieff, S. Fletcher. 11 written by S.Moncrieff, S.Covington, B.Holland. All other tracks written by S. Moncrieff.

Music by thatmanmonkz. Additional instrumentation : Keys, bass on 1 by P.Simpson, Trumpet by L.Thomas. Bass on 3 by D.Campbell, Saxophone on 3 by M.Ward. Keys, bass on 7 by P.Simpson. Keys on 11 by B.Holland.

Original Cover Art by Gilbert Mkapule, Design by MuSol.
Additional Mixing by Ross Orton.


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