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Roots Manuva and Wrong Tom are ready with a new album entitled Duppy Writer which will be released September 6th through Big DaDa.
With artwork from the legendary Tony McDermott (who was responsible for the illustrations on Greensleeves classics by the likes of Scientist, Mad Professor and the famous Carnival of Reggae 12” sleeve) it’s a thing of beauty.
What the new record offers is a series of re-works by a talented producer who goes by the moniker Wrong Tom. Big Dada first came across Wrong Tom a few months before the release of Roots Manuva’s album, Slime & Reason.
The DJ and producer (whose previous credits includes work for Lynval Golding’s Pama International, Trojan Records and his Staines mates Hard Fi) got in touch asking if he could bash out a dub version of the lead single for that campaign, Buff Nuff.
Two years on and Tom, with moral support from Mr Manuva, has turned in an album which covers all four of Roots Manuva’s main albums, plus tracks from Dub Come Save Me and Alternately Deep and a brand new collaboration with Mr Manuva and Ricky Ranking on lead single Jah Warriors.
The project is approached with such conviction and skill that many of the tunes become hard to place in their orignal context, so it really does feel as if these funky, skanking, shuffling little numbers are in fact the ground zero of the Manuva experience.
And while this album is, in effect, a bit of fun to keep us all satisfied until Roots comes through with a whole new batch of material, the re-works are so well done, and lock so tight with Rodney’s vox that they actually achieve more than anyone could hope for.
Check out Roots Manuva on his official website:
http://www.rootsmanuva.co.uk/rootsmanuva/