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Artist:	MO KOLOURS
Title:	EP1: Drum Talking
Label:	ONE HANDED MUSIC (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	HAND 12009EP

Mo Kolours drops into the One Handed roster like Hawk on a half pipe. The rhythms lead the way here, whether the straight, percussive workout of "Drum Talking" or the crafty vocal manipulation that drives the low-slung bump of "Biddies," a song that traces an imaginary line between Theo Parrish and Gonja Sufi. "Dead Of Night" mines the symbolism of The Beatles while his own "Bakiraq" resembles a soul classic. This is a set of deep, spaced-out weed shanties.

Artist:	MO KOLOURS
Title:	EP2: Banana Wine
Label:	ONE HANDED MUSIC (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	HAND 12010EP

Mo Kolours returns with his second release: EP2: Banana Wine. "Ridda Mountain" is a hypnotic, blunted incantation which draws heavily on a love of dub. "Twelve" sees a loose hip-hop rhythm paired with Mo Kolours' unique sound palette. His percussion skills feature on the Afro-Latin workout "Mini Culcha," and "Keep It Up" roots Mo Kolours in the here and now, while "Banana Wine" takes its cue from a Sega classic and sounds like dubstep imagined on a 1970s African island. Remix by Beautiful Swimmers.

Artist:	WHITE, PAUL
Title:	Rapping With Paul White
Label:	ONE HANDED MUSIC (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	HAND 12007CD

"'We don't know where we're going but we sure make a lot of noise getting there!'' - so goes the tongue-in-cheek opening to Rapping With Paul White, the gifted South Londoner's first full-length vocal project. It's another left turn after last year's intriguing Paul White & The Purple Brain excursion into prog and psych-rock and deserves to establish its mastermind as one of the most versatile and individual producers working today. Paul White first made his name with 2009's instrumental opus The Strange Dreams of Paul White , which led Diplo to declare 'I'm his biggest fan' and The Independent to label him 'a 21st century DJ Shadow'. While included in the 'beats scene' alongside Hudson Mohawke, Flying Lotus and others, Paul White's hip-hop sensibility has always been at the forefront, which partly explains why his 2010 podcast for LA's Stones Throw Records racked up 300,000 downloads in just a few weeks and alerted a new audience to the young Brit. All this meant that assembling some of his favorite MCs was the easy part. Stones Throw artist Guilty Simpson appears twice, his grim warnings perfectly matching the sparse, brooding production on lead single Trust. Gap-toothed, mohawked Danny Brown is one of rap's rising stars -- a recent signing to A-Trak's Fool's Gold label, his lewd punchlines top White's exuberant production on the not-safe-for-work 'One Of Life's Pleasures.' There's humor in New Yorker Homeboy Sandman's turn too, as one of hip-hop's most likeable lyricists recounts his cultural missteps during a trip to London over a quintessential Paul White track."

Artist:	WHITE, PAUL
Title:	Rapping With Paul White
Label:	ONE HANDED MUSIC (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	HAND 12007LP

"'We don't know where we're going but we sure make a lot of noise getting there!' - so goes the tongue-in-cheek opening to Rapping With Paul White, the gifted South Londoner's first full-length vocal project. It's another left turn after 2010's intriguing Paul White & The Purple Brain excursion into prog and psych-rock and deserves to establish its mastermind as one of the most versatile and individual producers working today. All this meant that assembling some of his favorite MCs was the easy part. Stones Throw artist Guilty Simpson appears twice, his grim warnings perfectly matching the sparse, brooding production on lead single Trust. Gap-toothed, mohawked Danny Brown is one of rap's rising stars -- a White's exuberant production on the not-safe-for-work 'One Of Life's Pleasures.' There's humor in New Yorker Homeboy Sandman's turn too, as one of hip-hop's most likeable lyricists recounts his cultural missteps during a trip to London over a quintessential Paul White track. It's not all Americans on the mic: Jehst shows why he's one of the UK's most respected MCs on 'Indigo Glow,' and One-Handed Music label mate Tranqill lays waste to 'Rotten Apples' in the album's grittiest moment. And how may hip-hop records feature a folk singer from Wigan, Nancy Elizabeth, laughing her way through a bizarre Edward Lear poem? There's plenty for fans of Paul's instrumental work too: from waltzing drum machines to medieval vocoders, the interludes are as compelling as the vocal tracks."

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