Tata - It's A MessTwo sizzling South African boogie tracks from Kabasas Tata Sibeko. A killer producer, arranger and bass wizard, Tata channels the gloomy current affairs landscape of 1985 into a glimmering Afro synth nugget. As South African pop embraced 1980s synth sounds, Maxi Singles on 12 inch vinyl became a new canvas of expression with wider grooves for fat beats and extended mixes that suited dancefloors. The supergroups of the 1970s fragmented into solo

Gilles Peterson ("a key part of an entire movement")

The physical release is accompanied by an extended essay from The Hum’s Bradford Bailey

Orange Tree bossman Jimmy Rouge gets his shears out for another round of evergreen edits from deep in the depths

he began composing music for solo guitar

it’s an album that was years ahead of its time

with the most annoying moment on the preview cut (cuts just before the drop)

As two differing sides to the emotive spectrum

Passion Deez and ethereal excursion ‘What If’ lead into a captivating nod to the heydays of jungle and DnB on ‘Mild Fever’ and ‘Bad Knees’ respectively

Vecchio's Afro-Rock is one big horn-heavy

‘Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)’ is a huge slice of soulful

environmental music figure

talking drums and samples