There were plenty of reasons for Londoner James Mathé to simply keep course after the release of his well received debut album, Chemical Campfires in 2008 on Fence Records: a flourishing reputation as one of Britain's most exciting acoustic troubadours, a prominent spot in Johnny Flynn and Jose Gonzales' backing bands, the roar of applause from the audience at a sold-out show at New York's Bowery Ballroom still ringing in his ears. But Mathé had other ideas. “I loved the acoustic scene, but knew it was not all I was about,” he remembers. “So I dug out all my old Casiotone keyboards, drum machines and analogue synths and just started writing.”

Bloodlines, then, is a compelling reinvention and sees Mathé’s emotive missives from young adulthood rewired into elegiac electronic anthems, dusted with huge spectral gasps of reverb and soul-wrenching organ melodies. Unusually for such an electronic album, it was recorded on vintage analogue gear and straight to tape.  “I really fancied getting back to basics,” says Mathé “I was tired of trying to iron out all the mistakes in modern production. I wanted to record live to tape, keeping all the mistakes in, warts and all.”   

From the sultry ache of opener Bloodline – a nod to Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy “about not picking up the bad habits of the generation before you”, says Mathé – to the Pharrell Williams-inspired urban crunch of ‘Turbine’, all the way to ‘The Load’, written when Mathé was indulging in his love of Jurassic 5 era 90s hip hop, Bloodlines is a brilliantly varied listen that pulls and paws at your heartstrings.    If there's a gloriously loose, tenebrous feel to songs like the blue-eyed electro-soul ‘Pagliacco’, it might have something to do with the Londoner's organic approach to song writing. “I just sit down with my dictaphone and make sense of what comes out afterwards. The best stuff usually comes when I’m hungover or not really thinking. The minute I try to be clever with words, it just sounds shit,” Mathé laughs.  Instead, the album's lyrics burn with a simple, poignant immediacy and Mathé sings them with touching, soulful grace. 

Recently signed to iconic London label Memphis Industries (Field Music, POLIÇA, The Go! Team, Dutch Uncles), Mathé is influenced by everything from soul men Stevie Wonder, D'Angelo and Levon Helm to Dirty Projectors and Sufjan Stevens but points to one inspiration in particular for the overall mood of Bloodlines – Vincent Gallo’s cult '90s film Buffalo 66, a twisted romance about a tap dancer who falls for her convict kidnapper – “the end scene which features Yes's Heart of the Sunrise and the scene with Cristina Ricci dancing to King Crimson’s Moonshine at a bowling hall especially,” he notes. 

Tender yet triumphant, Bloodlines marks Mathé as one of Britain's most versatile and adventurous artists.


I’ve been DJ’ing in clubs in the UK since the early 1990’s, covering many different genres since then.

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Welcome to the soundcloud page for UK old skool DJ Rick Jones. 
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Shock C is one of the main players in the Midlands oldskool and oldskool jungle scene...He cut his teeth as former resident of the famous and legendary 'Eclipse' rave venue in Coventry (U.K.) in the early nineties.&#13;
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SHOCK C

For those that don't know. Shock C is a very popular dj &amp; mc in the Midlands ,UK . His name started to be very well known when he became a resident dj &amp; mc at The Eclipse in Coventry uk,and Amnesia House est1988, and then started playing all over the country within years to come and has performed alongside some of the best in the business.
He was also known for managing the Don Christies record basement in Birmingham from 1992-1996, providing the punters with some of he finest cuts ,As well as building his own collection , his “Jungle pressure” radio show on Birmingham based Choice fm (now known as capital fm) is also where he brought his sound to the masses each weekend,This was one of the first pioneering 'jungle' shows  broadcast from a Legal station in The 2nd city.

At the end of the 90's he took a break from DJing , but after a lengthy break he's returned back, having performed and pleased many people at Flashback, fantazia, Shelleys reunions,  dreamscape, Starlight, Raindance, Retro-trax oldskool festival , Boomtown festival , Amnesia House  Raveology &raiders of the oldskool  just to name a few...Shock C follows his heart ,and continues to spread the oldskool sound..

if u enjoy what u hear,please share,Oldskool is his passion !

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