Within Without is a soaring new collaboration with influential British jazz keyboardist Jessica Lauren.

From cult solo recordings on Soul Jazz and Freestyle Records to working alongside legends including Jean Carne, James Mason and Dexter Wansell, few players in the UK can match her for sheer energy, charisma and the ability to create magic at a Fender Rhodes.

As long-time friends, Within Without is the third time Scrimshire and Lauren have worked together, blending strong rhythms with emotional atmospheres.

This time the partnership is underpinned by percussion from spiritual-jazz explorer Emanative and Albert's Favourites producer Huw Marc Bennett on bass. All elevated into the clouds with a sweeping orchestral arrangement from Scrimshire himself.

It would be easy to make comparisons with often-cited Scrimshire influences like 4Hero, but there is a definite feel here for early 70s, KPM library records and orchestral jazz from the likes of Charles Stepney.

Within Without is another deeply moving taste of the 6th Scrimshire studio album, due in October 2021.
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released July 23, 2021

Written by Adam Scrimshire & Jessica Lauren
String arrangement by Adam Scrimshire
String orchestration by Matt Nicholson & Andrew Howes
Jessica Lauren – Fender Rhodes
Huw Marc Bennett – Bass guitar
Chris Boot – Drums
Nick Woodmansey – Percussion
Antonia Kesel – Violin
Will Harvey – Violin & Viola
Elitsa Bogdanova – Viola
Maddie Cutter – Cello
Adam Scrimshire – Moogs, synthesisers, percussion

Within Without feat. Jessica Lauren (Radio Edit)

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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

'Kingswood Drive' is the new release from synth-production duo Modified Man, and it's out next week on their own label Albert's Favourites. It's an early teaser of their next EP, due out in April. We're premiering the title track which is a gorgeous, celestial analogue jam. The beats are as broken as they are soulful, but the whole thing is underpinned by this serene sort of energy.

Kingswood Drive

PREMIERE: Modified Man - Kingswood Drive [Albert's Favourites]

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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

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

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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.

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