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Approved: Toddla T and/or Roots Manuva

By | Published on Thursday 30 June 2011

Roots Manuva

Roots Manuva has announced that he will release his new album, ‘4everevolution’, on 26 Sep via Big Dada/Banana Klan. The seventeen tracks on the album apparently cover everything from “wonky reggae through pop-funk, street spitting, straight up hip hop, sung ballads and epic death-disco” and feature along the way guest appearances from Ricky Ranking, DJ MK, Daddy Kope, Rokhsan, Skin and Cass Lewis from Skunk Anansie, Elan Tamara and Spikey T.

Along with this, the rapper has made a track from the album, ‘Watch Me Dance’, a stream of which we posted earlier this month, available as a free download. The track features some of the aforementioned pop-funk and was apparently one of the earliest tracks written for the album. As ever, it shows Roots’ amazing ability to experiment with musical styles and still make them sound his own.

The eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed that ‘Watch Me Dance’ is also the title of Toddla T’s new single (and, indeed, new album). That’s because they are different versions of the same track. After demoing the track, Roots handed it to Toddla to see what he could do with it. The producer seemingly channelled Prince and ramped the funk right up. Both versions worked brilliantly, but for different albums. As you can see for yourself: download the Roots Manuva version, listen, stream the Toddla T track, repeat.



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