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Review: W.T.F! by Monsieur Job

Monsieur Job are a Columbian collective lead by Cali based producer and songwriter Toby Holguin . Their eclectic mix of chill-out, breakbeat, hip-hop, dub, reggaetón and latin jazz was displayed to a great extent on debut album Bass Pa$$i , as well as it's subsequent follow up releases. Now with more collaborators on board, Monsieur Job have constructed their next album, the sprawling opus that is W.T.F! . Stylistically it follows in a similar vein to Bass Pa$$i , so it would be easy to look at the seven and half hour runtime of  W.T.F!  and think that this is some kind of self indulgent project that's inevitably bloated with throwaways and filler. That really isn't the case however, primarily because, at 120 tracks long,  W.T.F!  isn't supposed to be listened to in the same way most commercial albums are. In 1970 J.G. Ballard published his surrealist dystopian masterpiece The Atrocity Exhibition, a book broken up into loosely connected short chapters, or "condens...

Review: Any Moment by Le Sonic feat. Robert Lee

It's not always a guarantee that when you put together experienced names with a rich musical history that what you'll get is a great piece of music. In pop music particularly in recent years the quality of collaborations has gone down while the supply has gone drastically up. However, when those names are perhaps less well known than the music they have produced it's probably more likely, from my experience, that the music will be put first and as such the song will more likely be a success, not just commercially but artistically too. Such is the case with Le Sonic,  the production duo made up of   Mike Rogers  and  Gary Lefkowith , and their debut single Any Moment . You probably haven't heard of Mike Rogers , but you have definitely heard Groove Is In The Heart , Deee-Lite's massive 1990 hit which he co-produced. You may not have heard of Gary Lefkowith , but you of course know Elvis Presley, Mick Jagger and Fleetwood Mac, just a few of the artists he has been...