Browse by Label: BIG DADA (UK)

Artist:	SPANK ROCK
Title:	YoYoYoYoYo Instrumentals
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.50
Catalog #:	BD 091LP-INST

"MC Spank Rock's flows are fine but the group is not just mouth alone. A hefty half is production wizard Armani XXXchange (humbly known as Alex Epton) who takes cues from B'more house, Miami Bass, old school electro, crunk, NYC funk punk and frat rock to create the beats for Cool Disco MC Spank Ro to flow and ass shakin' competition champs to shine. We present the Instrumentals to this soon-to-be-classic on two slabs of wax for the DJ/remixer/producer in all of us to tell it like it is."

Artist:	DEBELLE, SPEECH
Title:	Speech Therapy
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 137CD

"Speech's sound has been received as urban pop, and she's drawn comparisons to Lily Allen and been called the lovechild of Biggie Smalls and Joanna Newsome. The childlike quality of her voice belies her often dark lyrical subject matter. The oldest song on here is called 'Finish This Album.' It was the tune she first played when she visited Big Dada almost five years ago. Speech is both young and old beyond her years. At the age of 25 her fragile voice can make her sound like a teenager, but she's packed in enough experience to last most people forever."

Artist:	ALEEM, JUICE
Title:	Jerusalaam Come
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 147CD

"Juice Aleem, long-acknowledged as one of the finest MCs the UK has ever produced, finally goes solo. The sometime New Flesh and Gamma frontman who has also worked with Coldcut, Hexstatic, Evil 9 and Adam Freedland amongst many, many others, has decided that at last it's time to go for self. Jerusalaam Come is the result -- thirteen tracks of varied beats and broad musical influences held together by Juice's unique lyrical style and mental dexterity. Largely produced by Gamma/Shadowless legend Blackitude, it's an album which is both as raw and as sophisticated as the minds who have made it. First single 'First Lesson' kicks things off, Juice showing rather than telling, when it comes to the failings of many of the MCs on the scene. 'Straight Out Of BC' is an electro-dub tribute to the second city featuring Moorish Delta's Cipher Jewels. 'The Fallen' (Gen. 15.13) continues the dub and roots feeling with a complex lyric drawing links between Biblical proverbs and 'The Fallen' of our own society. 'Who Is He?' -- produced by Tomz and featuring him and Blackitude -- is a Gamma get-together, the lyrics skipping over the beat with complete control. 'Rock My Hologram,' produced by Si Begg, is a dubstep-flavoured number . On 'U4Mi' Juice addresses sex and relationships, using a sly humour which is sometimes overlooked in discussions of an MC who can deliver lyrics any way he likes. 'KunteKinTeTarDiss' is an attack on rap music and contemporary society more generally. The album finishes with 'Sang Real,' an uplifting tribute to the internationalism in Juice's own bloodline and his worldview." Enhanced CD, featuring images and bonus MP3s.

Artist:	INFESTICONS, THE
Title:	Bedford Park
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$26.50
Catalog #:	BD 163LP

"The third and final part of Mike Ladd's epic Infesticons trilogy, Bedford Park sees the remnants of the Infesticons' marching band emerge from a bunker to find out that not only is the war with the Majesticons over, but no one can even remember who either side are. With various guests including Saul Williams, Ladd fashions a ragged punk-blues sound for this strange, beautiful and funny coda, a sound which he describes as 'Dinosaur Jr. by Black people.'" Limited vinyl edition of 1000 copies, numbered and signed by the artist.

Artist:	ROOTS MANUVA MEETS WRONGTOM
Title:	Duppy Writer
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 165CD

"At last a new Roots Manuva album is here! Duppy Writer comes in the form of a series of re-works of classic Roots Manuva tracks by the talented producer Wrongtom. The project is approached with such conviction and skill that many of the tunes become hard to place in their original context, so it really does feel as if these funky, skanking, shuffling little numbers are in fact the ground zero of the Manuva experience, and with artwork from the legendary Tony McDermott, it's a thing of beauty."

Artist:	DELS
Title:	Trumpalump
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	BD 168EP

"Hand-stamped and numbered labels-- only 300 available worldwide! The second single from his debut album finds Kieren Dickins aka DELS collaborating once again with Hot Chip's Joe Goddard on a tune which throws all the rules about the correct structuring of a classic pop song out of the window, drags them back in through the backdoor and makes of them one of the most beautiful, funny and compelling rap records you've heard in a good old while." Also includes remixes by Paper Tiger and Gwilym Gold.

Artist:	OFFSHORE
Title:	Aneurysm
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	BD 171EP

"Aneurysm itself is the bass tune of the package. Put it on any big speaker system and feel your breastplate buzz. But despite its links back to his earlier work, it also shows a reliance on melody and detailing which sets it apart from the work of some of his contemporaries. This isn't just music to play in a club. Offshore develops this aesthetic throughout the rest of the EP. 'Hiccup' is the melancholic soundtrack to an East European thriller. 'UTG' builds from a series of slipping, sliding interludes to epic electrowob-orchestral climax. And last track 'Round And Round' demonstrates that his work perhaps owes as much to the moors, mountains and even folk tunes of his home country as it does to hip-hop and inner city London, where he now lives."

Artist:	PARIS SUIT YOURSELF
Title:	My Main Shitstain
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 175CD

"From Luvinsky's incredible voice, which moves from angry or ecstatic screams to fragile crooning in both English and French, from Marie Boye's rock-solid bass and deranged backing vox, through Victor Tricard's all-out guitar riffology and effortless way with a Korg, to Joe Heffernan's pedal-to-the-metal polyrhythmic drumming, this is a record you won't forget in a hurry. It's also packed with enough hooks for a Justin Timberlake record (but with none of the cynicism)."

Artist:	DELS
Title:	Gob
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BD 177EP

"Appropriately, the lead remix for the project comes from David Andrew Sitek himself. 'Super passionate' about the song, the producer spent over two weeks in and out of the studio perfecting his mix, a combination of classic era boom-bap drums, melodic catchiness and trademark audio atmospherics. Untold, on the other hand, tools his remix much more for the dancefloor, cutting into DELS' vocals to produce a slowburner very much in the mould of his recent Stereo Freeze EP for R&S. The third and final mix comes from a newer name, Ry9n, whose brittle 'Hot Breath' dancehall rhythm has already been getting early plays on Rinse FM."

Artist:	DELS
Title:	Gob
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 179CD

"Kieren Dickins aka DELS is a new type of rapper (which is another way of saying that he's more than just a rapper). Dickins recorded GOB with just three producers, all of whom he has collaborated with for a significant amount of time and all of whom are more interested in creating something with him than in giving him a beat to rhyme on. Micachu is perhaps best known for her 'indie' work with her band The Shapes but her interest in grime and hip hop is as well documented in a series of mixtapes and videos on YouTube. Together she and DELS create the bad-trip anthem 'Melting Patterns' and 'Violina,' which catches all the disorientation and anger of a relationship break-up. Longtime mentor and friend Joe Goddard of Hot Chip is represented by both 'Trumpalump' (featuring his own beautifully melancholy/hopeful chorus) and Shapeshift, plus a brand new track, 'Capsize,' which dissects something of the current political situation in the company of Roots Manuva (the only guest MC on the record) -- a kind of 'Ghost Town' for a new generation."

Artist:	WILEY
Title:	100% Publishing
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 180CD

"Wiley is the Lord Byron of rap. It's so obvious I'm not even going to explain it. Arguably one of the most important British musicians of the last ten years or more, this mass of every contradiction the human race can muster is also a stone-cold genius, albeit one who occasionally seems a trifle unhinged. Now the latest switchback move in a career defined by switchback moves is his return to Big Dada with his latest and arguably finest album. 100% Publishing, one hundred per cent written, produced, vocalled and recorded by Richard Cowie, the shadowy figure behind the Wiley persona." Enhanced CD includes instrumental and acappella versions in mp3 format.

Artist:	TAMARA, ELAN
Title:	Organ
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BD 182EP

"Everyone witters on about the latest female singer-songwriter to plop off the major label production line but the truth is this: most of them sound the same. Weak retreads of classic soul or classic folk or classic this or that. As a whole, people are more interested in how they look than whether they have anything to say, or any way to say it. Please welcome, then, Elan Tamara, who genuinely sounds like no one else. Fascinated by Balinese Gamelan and Steve Reich, she makes music as uncategorisable, as heartfelt and beautifully otherworldly as anything you're likely to hear. Over two EPs she has carved out a space so unique and unclassifiable that people have fallen back on namechecking other female artists with a distinctive aesthetic and outlook -- Kate Bush, Bjork, Joanna Newsom and their ilk. Needless to say, she doesn't sound like them, either."

Artist:	WILEY
Title:	Evolve Or Be Extinct
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 187CD

"What is the true mark of the wayward genius of Wiley? Is it that, less than six months after the release of his last full album, 100% Publishing, he has another record all set for release? Is it that he has insisted that it is released on his birthday, Thursday January 19th 2012? Or that he initially refused to release a single from it? That he has made so much music that his fans will receive two CDs, the second with at least eight further tracks on it? Or even that one track on the album has no music ('Customs')? No, it's not any of these. It's that we can say, without fear of contradiction (or without much fear), that Evolve Or Be Extinct is the best album (so far!) of this unique artist's career. Dark, funny, wild and exhilarating, this is a record which shows just what Wiley is capable of when he forgets the minutiae of recording contracts and concentrates on the many weird and wonderful facets of his life."

Artist:	ROOTS MANUVA
Title:	4everevolution
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 190CD

Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva's studio album, 4everevolution, released via Big Dada/Banana Klan, "is just a few seconds under an hour long, consists of seventeen tracks and covers every style from wonky reggae through pop-funk, street spitting, straight up hip hop, sung ballads and epic death-disco. It deepens much of what Mr Manuva has already achieved over a glorious decade of innovation, but also throws in enough new ideas and adventures to last most creative artists a lifetime. We think it's his very best work since Run Come Save Me."

Artist:	DEBELLE, SPEECH
Title:	Freedom Of Speech
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 193CD

"Speech Debelle is special. Soulful and raw, she blew up seemingly out of nowhere and delivered one of the most critically-acclaimed debut albums of the last few years, the Mercury Music Prize-winning Speech Therapy. Two years on, having ridden a rollercoaster through life since, she's back, and she's delivered a follow up that packs a powerful punch. If we see her first album as a confessional diary of trials and tribulations, then new album Freedom of Speech is outward-looking, high energy, powerful and engaged."

Artist:	BANG ON!
Title:	Sic
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 200CD

"It's pretty hard to walk your own path in rap music this late in the day, to remain true to where you're from and to the roots of the music you love while honouring your own intelligence and creating something original. On his debut album, [sic], twenty one year old Elliott Egerton achieves just that. Slamming together a raw mix of contemporary sounds that he describes as 'punk-donk-dub-hip-hop,' then colliding this with the mercurial, hard-hitting brilliance of his lyricism, Egerton has made a debut album which sounds both true and new." "Liverpool's dubstep-rap breakout boy is bringing north-west rap music back from the donk towards something much smarter." --Vice

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Artist:	LOTEK HI-FI
Title:	Lotek HI Fi
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.50
Catalog #:	BD 061LP

Artist:	INFINITE LIVEZ
Title:	Bush Meat
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.50
Catalog #:	BD 068LP

Artist:	BIGG JUS
Title:	Black Mamba Serums V.2.0
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.50
Catalog #:	BD 071LP

Artist:	TY
Title:	Look 4 Me
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	BD 074EP

Artist:	ANTI-POP CONSORTIUM
Title:	Flourescent Black
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BD 150CD

Artist:	JAMMER
Title:	Jahmanji
Label:	BIG DADA (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	BD 161CD