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2 x CDs + 6 x 7"s featuring new tracks from Mr Scruff, Toddla T, Kid Koala, Wagon Christ, Jaga Jazzist, King Geedorah, DJ Food, Kyle Hall, The Heavy, The Qemists, King Cannibal, Blockhead and unreleased archive tracks from The Cinematic Orchestra and...
The mixmaster WrongTom is offered the entire Manuva oeuvre to play with, a job he undertook with the cute idea of imagining how each tune might have been treated in a previous era. Hence "Juggle Tings Proper" becomes the electro-dub "Proper Tings...
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 06: Rodney Smith of Roots Manuva performs as support act for Rage Against The Machine on June 6, 2010 in London, England. View Photo »
Wayne Marshall is on the first single, I’ve got a tune with Roots Manuva again, I’ve got a tune with Roisin Murphy. A lot of singers from back home. The same sort of thing really, just a bit more advanced.
Manuva has already released a dub version of one of his records 2002's Dub Come Save Me and, in 2008, commissioned DJ/producer Wrongtom to produce a bonus disc of dub reworkings of tracks from his fourth LP, Slime and Reason. It was so well-liked, the...
Manuva has already released a dub version of one of his records – 2002's Dub Come Save Me – and, in 2008, commissioned DJ/producer Wrongtom to produce a bonus disc of dub reworkings of tracks from his fourth LP, Slime and Reason. It was so well-liked,...
Roots Manuva played hits 'Witness' and 'Audio Murder', before closing with 'Calling Out'. However, he soon added 'Dreamy Days' to the set when the crowd shouted for more. The Lock Up Stage returns to Leeds Festival tomorrow (August 29), when Alkaline...
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 10: Roots Manuva performs on stage during the Days Like This Festival at Fox Studios, Moore Park on January 10, 2010 in Sydney, Australia. View Photo »
The rhythms from Jamaica just did my head in. All the producers had their own style, and I’ve always looked at that and thought it was amazing. I just took it from there. But that’s just one aspect of what it’s all about. How did the Roots Manuva...
Making our way over to the main stage, it seems that Roots Manuva might have already played 'Witness (1 Hope)' by the time we get there – something of a shame, since it means we don’t get to hear an absolute festival classic, but are also deprived of...
Roots Manuva (born Rodney Smith, 1972) is a rapper from Stockwell, South London. He is currently signed to Big Dada. Full Article
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 06: Rodney Smith of Roots Manuva performs as support act for Rage Against The Machine on June 6, 2010 in London, England.
View Photo »SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JANUARY 10: Roots Manuva performs on stage during the Days Like This Festival at Fox Studios, Moore Park on January 10, 2010 in Sydney, Australia.
View Photo »DUBLIN, IRELAND - SEPTEMBER 24: Roots Manuva perform onstage for the Arthurs Day Guinness 250th Anniversary Celebration held at the Tripod on September 24, 2009 in Dublin, Ireland. The Arthur's Day Event celebrates the 250th anniversary of Arthur Guinness signing the lease on the St....
View Photo »LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JUNE 06: Rodney Smith of Roots Manuva performs as support act for Rage Against The Machine on June 6, 2010 in London, England.
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