The first 30 showcases new emerging directions on the r’n’b template taking those classic 90’s vocal styles and wrapping them round fresh futuristic deep electronic sounds – watch out for IAMNOBODI, MNEK, Jelani. We go deep, dark and moody with Mark Pritchard, Burial and Zomby; a chopped up break-laden refix of a grime classic (Pulse X) and some woozy-spaced-out hip hop soul from LV, Deft, Ommas Keith and Joseph Malik. We get on a drum machine tip with Jamie Lidell; sample-frenzy from Todd Terry; a big orchestral grime mash-up (Sticky) and an epic big band cover of some Prodigy classics – oh gosh! A very dark breakbeat excursion from Axion and we return to give you some Portishead, a funked-up Gary Davis cut, hip-hop and soul from the Stones Throw stable closing out with classic material from two heavyweight artists: Gil Scott Heron and Roy Ayers (inc production for the Bobbi Humphrey disco epic).
