Love the smell of NY boom-bap in the morning? Breathe deep – here’s some Oxygen. Well, strictly speaking, Oxygen of Sputnik Brown, Emskee of The Good People, Washington DC emcee Dr Beckett and rising production team Freqnik & WDRE. Probably a bit much for one lungful but the jazz sample stylings of A Side The Process are the sort of thing to play while you’re inhaling. I prefer the flip though – the stoned summer psychedelia of mellow posse cut Guillotine 16s though I’d probably have liked it even more had I not heard the sample on Ugly Duckling’s How It Used To Be off their last LP. Still – great minds think alike. Got wax?
(Out 28 February on Boro Records)