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"'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."
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"'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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"An inventive showcase of what's possible when armed with just a sampler, a few studio toys and a fertile imagination, Paul White And The Purple Brain is the intriguing sophomore album from South London producer Paul White. A collaboration of sorts, the entire record is based around and inspired by the work of little-known Swedish psych-rock guru ST Mikael. Heavy on Eastern influences and otherworldly concerns, Mikael's music ranges from searing electric guitar-led dirges to dreamlike ballads to ghostly atmospheric experiments and has been issued in tiny quantities since the 1990s on the Subliminal Sounds label. Paul White And The Purple Brain is a remarkably diverse album that defies easy categorization. Which suits him and his 'home' label One-Handed Music (in collaboration with whom Now-Again releases this album) just fine. Praised as someone who 'embodies all that is good about a new generation of producers' by Dazed & Confused magazine, Paul White has won over fans of left-leaning sounds and interesting hip hop, including Diplo, Mary Anne Hobbs, Benji B and Gilles Peterson."
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"Paul White And The Purple Brain is the intriguing sophomore album from South London producer Paul White. A collaboration of sorts, the entire record is based around and inspired by the work of little-known Swedish psych-rock guru ST Mikael. 25 psychedelic hip hop tracks that will be enjoyed by fans of Broadcast, Madlib, Dungen and Caribou. Packaged in a deluxe 'paste-on' jacket. First 1000 sets will include a bonus 12" from Paul White featuring Guilty Simpson."
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