ARTIST...: Essa (formerly Yungun)
TITLE....: Time For Something New
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: First Word Records
CAT.NO...: FW95
GENRE....: Hip-Hop
TIME.....: 19:52 min
SIZE.....: 45.49 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint-Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/11/11
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net
TRACKLIST
01) (03:52) Something New
02) (04:01) Panache
03) (04:13) Let's Start Living ft. Inspectah Deck & Skinny Man
04) (03:09) A Walk In The Park ft. Jessica Greenfield
05) (04:37) Panache (LV Remix)
First Word are proud to present Time For Something New, the FW debut from Essa. HeÆs
no newbie though - under his former name, Yungun, he rose through the UK Hip-Hop
ranks to reach a worldwide audience winning praise from Nas, Mark Ronson and Cody
ChesnuTT. With a new label and a new(ish!) name comes a new musical direction... Time
For Something New! He's roped in collaborators as diverse as Simbad (Gilles Peterson
Worldwide Family), Waajeed (Slum Village / PPP), Finn Peters (Bansuri / Accidental
Records), plus UK Hip-Hop legend Skinny Man and Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck. Add
in a remix from Hyperdub rising stars LV and you have a release that leaps over
musical boundaries.
The EP takes in latin-fuelled bass music (Something New), low-slung anthemic hip hop
(Let's Start Living & Panache) and nu soul (A Walk in The Park) with LV's Panache
remix adding minimal, claustrophobic club beats to the mix. Tying it all together is
Essa's powerful lyrical flow, his on-point rhymes effortlessly blending serious
subject matter with witty one-liners. The EP is a taste of things to come, showing
that, beyond tight rhymes and banging beats, there is real song-writing ability here.
Look out for his new album 'The Middle Man' due in 2013.
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