Roots Manuva - Alternately Deep - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

2008 , the follow-up to 2006's Alternately Deep from the London-based rapper. Roots (AKA Rodney Smith) has built a solid reputation as one of the best Hip Hop artists in the UK, mainly through his ability to embrace many different styles while maintaining a high standard of lyrical content and delivery. With more focus on Electronics and Dub than his previous effort, which employed a live band feel, this is another example of the artist's diversity. Singles include 'Buff Nuff'. Big Dada. Album Tracks 1. Again and Again 2. Cruff 3. Do Nah Bodda Mi 4. Let the Spirit 5. Kick Up Ya Foot 6. Dem a Talk 7. Buff Nuff 1. It's Me Oh Lord 2. 2 Much 2 Soon 3. We Do 4. Ummc 5. Heard of Mi 6. Well Alright 7. Struggle

The undisputed king of the UK hip-hop scene returns to reclaim the rightful title that some newcomers would like to call their own. Includes 51 new minutes of Manuava dub-wise hip-hop style. This time around he has made the best record of his career entitled AWFULLY DEEP. Album Tracks 1. Mind 2 Motion 2. Awfully Deep 3. Cause 4 Pause 4. Colossal Insight 5. Too Cold 6. A Haunting 7. Rebel Heart 8. Chin High 9. Babylon Medicine 10. Pause 4 Cause 11. Move Ya Loin Featuring Lotek 12. Thinking 13. The Falling 14. Toothbrush 1. Chin High (Manuvadelics Version) 2. Too Cold (Demo Version) 3. Colossal Insight (Manoustic at Reading) 4. Rebel Heart (Manuvadelics Version) 5. The Falling (Demo Version) 6. This World Is Mine (Hidden Track)

Not only one of Britain's greatest musical artists, but one of the greatest lyricists full stop, Roots Manuva is back with a dazzling new album, 'Bleeds'. Past collaborations with everyone from Gorillaz to the Maccabees to Leftfield to Coldcut to the Cinematic Orchestra, Rodney Smith's influence can be heard right across the musical landscape. Now, with his sixth studio album, he has made his most concise and focused record to date, his most emotionally affecting and powerful since his breakthrough, 'Run Come Save Me.' Drawing upon production assistance from young British producer, Fred, together with musical heavyweights Four Tet, Adrian Sherwood and Switch's new production team, With You, the title of the record is, in the man's own words, an Inchegocentric jest of daring to do things in the tradition of Jesus I'm ready to bleed for the artform.Inch It is, of course, also a reference to the way in which genres, in the sonic world of Roots Manuva, have a tendency to bleed into one another, so that hip hop, reggae, techno, funk, neo-classical, all blend together to create Inchliquid soul, the blood, the bleeds that paint infinite sacred wonders in our dreams and unfold in our day-to-day.Inch Album Tracks 1. Hard Bastards 2. Crying 3. Facety 2 11 4. Don't Breathe Out 5. Cargo 6. Stepping Hard 7. Me Up! 8. One Thing 9. I Know Your Face 10. Fighting For?