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The Peace Sword features six songs inspired by the film, Ender's Game. The EP will be released digitally on October 29th and on vinyl and CD on November 29.

Peace Sword (Open Your Heart)- The Flaming Lips

“A tour de force” Listed in Top Albums of the Year So Far – Louder Than War

"One of those super hardworking, super talented people. Just puts music out and just gets on with it." Gilles Peterson 

"More brilliant music from Scrimshire" Jamie Cullum, BBC Radio 2 

"As a producer, he excels at creating albums packed with soulful guest stars and fresh takes on the genre." The Guardian 

"One of the best producers in the UK" Smoove & Turrell 

“One of today’s most forward thinking producers” Beat Caffeine 

“It’s at this point that you realise the significance of Scrimshire’s ‘Paroxysm’…here we have an update, an extension of Sarathy Korwar’s ‘More Arriving’ or Kae Tempest’s ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’.” Backseat Mafia 

"Everything in the right place at the right time. Sonically, it is his biggest album; the sound is big, the messages even bigger." Louder Than War


Albert’s Favourites label founder Scrimshire released his bold new album 'Paroxysm' on May 26th. In the last few weeks of October 2022, Scrimshire wrote this new collection of songs with the descriptive working title "Scream". A direct response to the absurdity of the breakdown in the UK government, the horror of the treatment of refugees arriving on our shores and the callous disregard for the trauma being caused to low income people or anyone considered "other". While self-preserving Conservative MPs fought for their jobs, record profits were announced by energy companies as crippling amounts of money were gouged from people's pockets. The anger, sadness, mourning, and frustration he felt was poured into these recordings.

Singer Faye Houston features on new single ‘Eyes Shut’ a deeply mournful but beautiful piece of atmospheric jazz. It asks questions of our seemingly collective denial of the realities around corruption, racism and environmental catastrophy. 

“You see everything, but you close your eyes”. 

Scrimshire’s last album, 2021’s 'Nothing Feels Like Everything', received an Album of the Year nomination at the Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards and last March he was named by the Guardian as one of three producers behind the new wave of UK soul, alongside Inflo (Michael Kiwanuka, Sault, Lil Simz) and Swindle (Joel Culpepper, Greentea Peng, Kojey Radical). Albert’s Favourites was formed by Adam, Dave Koor, and Jonny Drop, who designed the logo and artwork, and has released records by The Expansions, Hector Plimmer, Huw Marc Bennett, Pie Eye Collective, Qwalia, Rōnin Arkestra. 

'Paroxysm' is out now on vinyl LP and digital formats.

Paroxysm

Eyes Shut

Scrimshire - Eyes Shut (Radio Edit)

Whirlpool Dub

Whirlpool Dub (Adrian Sherwood 'Reset In Dub' Version)

Seamoon Rising

Los Halcones

Los Halcones (feat. Lucy Patané)

Written and produced by Kieran Hebden
Artwork by Jason Evans

Loved

Beating Heart - South Africa

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Modified Man - The Country Is Full Of Spirits

Modified Man’s sound straddles decades. 

By surrounding themselves in tapes, synths, microphones and reverb boxes, they’ve sought not to wallow in nostalgia, but to grab some physical, real energy from solid objects, each with their own personalities, making a declaration about the future. One of physical expression in a digital era. 

The first EP from Albert’s Favourites co-founders and synth-production duo Modified Man focused on throwing out heavy editing, recording music with as few processes as possible and grabbing performances as single takes. 

Blending warped cassette recordings that touched upon early jazz-funk/brit-funk influences with the energy of broken beat and experimental electronica, won them support from Patrick Forge, Osunlade, Thris Tian, Yam Who? and Titeknots  to name a few. 

Since that release they premiered new track Thorns live on Boiler Room, going on to deliver a full, three-hour live performance and DJ set for the infamous global community. 

They also provided remixes for Dele Sosimi, Amp Fiddler, Makadem & Behr and Hector Plimmer, meanwhile, busily preparing a series of four, six-track vinyl EPs which will be released over the next 18 months. 

Kingswood Drive and Accidental Return are an early teaser of the next set, due in April. Displaying their signature analogue sounds and arpeggios, alongside broken beats and soul, you wouldn’t be alone in hearing the influences of Dam Funk, Herbie Hancock or Bugz In The Attic coming through on this release.

Modified Man - Accidental Return

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Burning Love Edit

Peter Brown - Burning Love Breakdown (Tomas Malo Edit) **FREE D/L**

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Limitation is frequently the fuel of creation. For this project, South London producer Aeshim worked with only a small handful of drum samples, a Juno 6 synthesiser, a tambourine and a shaker. 

Each track was allowed a small amount of hours to find itself and over seven days, from the eight pieces completed, he selected these four to represent his music, at that moment in February 2018. 

We love them, we hope you will too.

04 Aeshim - No Flowers

@modified-man is Dave Koor, a prolific keyboard player who is part of The Expansions, Hector Plimmer and Andrew Ashong’s live bands too, as well as having played improvisations with Yussef Kamaal. And Adam Scrimshire who cut his teeth with his own solo project 'Scrimshire' and runs the Wah Wah 45s record label, which is home to Dele Sosimi, The Milk, Resonators and Paper Tiger.

We've got the premiere of "Croydon Rooftop Cafe Culture" A broken chip tune jazz-funk oddessy. Brimming with influences of Dam-Funk, Herbie Hancock or Bugz In The Attic, this jittery, vibrant & playful track is a showcase for the sound of South London, as is the whole EP.

SB PREMIERE: Modified Man - Croydon Rooftop Cafe Culture [Albert’s Favourites]

Fresh from his brilliant album with The Expansions, London-based DJ, producer and instrumentalist Deoke has worked his remix magic once again on “Planet B”, the latest taste from @emanative.

TS Premiere: Emanative -  Planet B (Deoke's Milky Way Voyage)

Get You (STōND_LōK Mix)

Cole Loves Your Insides Out

We dug into the Okayarchives and found some mp3s of The Randy Watson Experience (?uestlove & James Poyser) playing on top of some classic Stevie Wonder tracks...


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You've Got It Bad Girl (The Randy Watson Experience Remix)

Warm jazz-lined electronic goodness from the Albert's Favourites co-founder.

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Day 2: Scrimshire - Light Hearted I Ain't [4:41]

Scrimshire, Paroxysm - out now. 
Previously nominated for "Album of the Year" Gilles Peterson, Worldwide Awards for Nothing Feels Like Everything. 
Named as one of three essential UK soul producers in The Guardian. 

Songwriter, Producer, mix and mastering engineer and one of the men behind Modified Man and the Albert's Favourites record label.

Scrimshire - Eyes Shut (Radio Edit)

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