ARTIST: DJ VADIM
TITLE: The Sound Catcher
LABEL: BBE
RELEASE DATE: Summer 2007
For his first full-length project since 2005's critically acclaimed supergroup release "One Self," DJ Vadim's BBE debut "The Sound Catcher" is everything you've come to expect from the DJ/producer/musical incendiary: unpredicatable, varied and ambitious.
His definitive work to date, the seventeen-track set sees the former Jazz Fudge head and longtime Ninja Tune artist throwing formality out the window and following his own path and plan. Present are straight shots of soul (‘Black Is The Night’ f/ Kathrin DeBoer), charged MC-driven wake-up calls (‘Ballistic Affairs’ f/ Skinnyman) and dense, dubby instrumentals (‘Manchester’; ‘SD4’). The dark grooves of ‘Talk To Me’ reference Gwen McCrae’s ‘90% Of Me Is You’; ‘Fear’ and ‘Watch That Sound’ delve into reggae whilst classic rap informs ‘Got To Rock’ and the sly, infectious ‘Soundcatchers’ with stalwart West Coast MC Abstract Rude.
Throw in the mystical Timbaland-esque ‘Like The Wind’ and the deep, slow burn of ‘Sufferin’ Blues’ and it adds up to a wholly fulfilling seventy minute experience. Stylistically leagues away from drab contemporary rap, The Sound Catcher is a bold and winning hybrid of 21st century hip-hop.
Artists featured on The Sound Catcher include: Emo – Jamaican Reggae Singer Syrys - Jamaican Reggae Singer Sena – Singer / Poetess Skinnyman – UK Rapper Big Red – Reggae Raggasonic Deuce Eclipse – MC from San Francisco Kathrin Deboer – Singer from Belleruche Zion – Lead Voice of Zion I - Oakland Monte Smith – Poet from N Carolina & Slam winner John Ellis – Keyboardist & songwriter from Cinematic Orchestra Abstract Rude – Founding member of Freestyle Fellowship Lil Green – Singer from Manchester (UK)
A full in-depth DJ Vadim biography and discography plus full notes on all the artists featured The Sound Catcher are available by email. DJ Vadim will be available for interviews. He will be touring throughout 2007.
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