Jamal Moss, man of many aliases and purveyor of bad ass music. Through his sprawling archive there are many moments of genius. Screw all this polite, safe, paint by numbers dance music, Jamal is definitely not playing the game.
Like Ron Hardy if he had been kipping in a squat for a few weeks and had been given access to a load of old hardware and not much sleep.
We both adore those records that do everything with nothing, what they leave out as important as what they include. Version is one of those imprints that borrows heavily from a dub mindset, loads of delay, space and hypnotic rhythms. Orson heads things up by keeping with a brief that means all the output interconnects.
Check that Yak Mido for a sure fire percussive club no that always slays!
Now the weather is (sort of) on the turn and our hopes and dreams turn to Summer, I have dug out some of New York’s finest – Easy Street. Not all of the output on this label is to my taste, but a lot of their dubs are sublime.
As per usual 5 below that I like to play and the last one a big dumb dj tool that can on the right occasion work!
(No Dub of this on youtube but it’s great)
(Nevins putting a donk on it – don’t judge it until you play it out!)