We Are Roots claims MC Jamalski of himself and producer Blend Mishkin on this latest beat from Mishkin. Tempting as it is to imagine the pair of them as soil covered tubers, Jamalski is, of course, on about their reggae credentials. Which are rather impeccable as this skanking roots-hop package reveals. In fact the only thing that prevented this getting 5 monkey stars was the fact that Totalcult used the same sample as the basis of his Cyaan Rock Steady not so long ago. You can cop it as a free download to promote the Rewind Guaranteed Europe Tour – dates below – none sadly in the UK. Still – if you live in a country where most of the population refer to ‘Europe’ as if it were some distant land mass, geographically unrelated to the British Isles, perhaps that’s not surprising.
Rewind Guaranteed Europe Tour
21/02 – TRAP BASEMENT – THESSALONIKI (GR)
22/02 – MIXTAPE 5 – SOFIA (BG)
25/02 – CHANNEL ZERO – LJUBLJANA (SLO)
01/02 – KASSABLANCA – JENA (DE)
02/03 – GROOVESTATION – DRESDEN (DE)
08/03 – HUSET-KBH – COPENHAGEN (DK)
09/03 – HORSAAL – HAMBURG (DE)
15/03 – OEYETLI – SAANEN (CH)
16/03 – TBA – OLTEN (CH)
22/03 – BADESCHIFF – VIENNA (AT)
23/03 – SUB – WIENER NEUSTADT (AT)
30/03 – BIOS – ATHENS (GR)