Release : Me & You - Floating Heavy
Artist : Me & You
Album : Floating Heavy
Genre : Lo-Fi
Source : CDDA
Label : Tru Thoughts Recordings
URL : http://www.tru-thoughts.co.uk
Date : 06-25-2007
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 155kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 15
Time : 64:36 min
Size : 75.60 MB
1 Me & You Intro (Skit A) 0:21
2 Brown Paper Bag 4:41
3 The Hoop Loop 3:47
4 Sneaker Thief 5:39
5 Brighton Request Line (Skit B) 1:24
6 Elephant Takeover 6:08
7 Wouri River 7:35
8 Last Night 7:26
9 Ze Zam 6:54
10 Brighton Request Line (Skit C) 1:38
11 Got Any R&B 5:32
12 Random Search 5:19
13 One More Tune (Skit D) 0:36
14 Last Night (Last Heads) 2:33
15 Space Lizards (Hidden Track) 5:03
TM Juke (solo artist and producer co-writer of Alice Russell) & Robert Luis (A&R
and Co-Owner of Tru-Thoughts) are the joint force which is me&you. The duo first
collaborated in 2005 to write a one-off track to put in their DJ sets. In the
summer of 2006 they were invited to play at Bestival and recorded a couple of
tracks especially for their set. After an astounding reaction from the crowd
they were inundated with enquiries through MySpace and the Tru Thoughts website
so decided to record a full-length album together. From start to finish the
album reaches out; slapping your auditory senses around the face, encapsulating
the listener into a head-nodding, toe tapping dance floor stomping trance that
wonÆt let go until the climax. The album takes you on a journey through an
eclectic spectrum of influences from break beat, soul, jazz, dub step, broken
beat, reggae, disco and drum and bass. The first single, a double A side 7ö with
æBrown Paper BagÆ (a reggae cover of the Roni Size/Reprazent dÆnÆb classic) and
æThe Hoop LoopÆ, has received a number of outstanding reviews and reactions as
well as support from Rob Da Bank on Radio 1 and Danny Breaks who describes it as
a track ôthat will never ever leave his record boxö. This is followed by
æSneaker ThiefÆ with its infectious horns and disco, break beat style. ThereÆs
even a little nod to Acid House but with Egyptian percussion being tweaked
through the filters on æElephant TakeoverÆ. The album then takes a switch to
drum and bass with the Afro influenced æWouri RiverÆ and then into Calypso drum
and bass(!) with æLast NightÆ. Look out for heavyweight remixes forthcoming on
these tracks by Redeyes (Bingo Beats) and Benny Page (now signed to Shy FXÆs
Soundboy label). æZe ZamÆ is tempo changing electrified Brazilian Batucada
Battle Weapon and æGot Any R&B?Æ is slightly noisier but still with that little
me&you twist. æRandom SearchÆ blends dub step, reggae bass lines and some
Bollywood grooves to make a rolling track. This groove is also the basis for
æSpace LizardsÆ the hidden tune (Track 23) which finds Young Max from Dirty
Diggers taking on two rappers roles. The one on the phone is a conspiracy ôfanö
and Max responds by trying to argue the case that Paul McCartney isnÆt a lizard!
All of this results in a spectacular musical array of powerfully dynamic tunes
set to keep dance floors across the world buzzing, it is an archetypical summer
album!