{"title":"Lamin Fofana","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"lamin-fofana-it-s-only-a-matter-of-acceleration-now","title":"It’s Only A Matter Of Acceleration Now (10\")","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLamin Fofana – It​’​s Only A Matter Of Acceleration Now\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn absolute highlight of 2023 courtesy of the Sierra Leone born and NYC based artist \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/spectrumcityshop.pro\/collections\/lamin-fofana\"\u003eLamina Fofana\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe A-side title-cut delivers a bubbling, squelchy, acid-house\/funk\/braindance 4\/4 club stormer whilst 'Lines And Speed Decay In My Voice' on the flip offers some top-shelf, heavy mutant dancehall - a deep, heady, bogle-inducing, bassbin-threatening rework, nicely laced through with snatches of disorienting, indecipherable cut-up vocals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe EP rounds off with 'Alter-Destiny', a cosmic, afro-futurist ambient trip - again with snatches of vocals but this time they're the focal point and it's Sun Ra's eerily prophetic '\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AmpgKIJl9NY\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eShape of the World Today\u003c\/a\u003e' speech.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWill Bankhead's \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrilogytapes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eTTT\u003c\/a\u003e imprint recently celebrated its 100th release - this one followed soon after - and as ever with this label, the unmatched quality-control shows no signs of waning. 100% essential stuff.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e--\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA1. It’s Only A Matter Of Acceleration Now\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"player\"\u003e\u003caudio controls=\"controls\"\u003e\n\u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/5988\/9376\/files\/Lamin_Fofana_It_s_Only_A_Matter_Of_Acceleration_Now_01.mp3?v=1705755866\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eB1. Lines And Speed Decay In My Voice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"player\"\u003e\u003caudio controls=\"controls\"\u003e\n\u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/5988\/9376\/files\/Lamin_Fofana_It_s_Only_A_Matter_Of_Acceleration_Now_03.mp3?v=1705755866\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eB2. Alter-Destiny\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"player\"\u003e\u003caudio controls=\"controls\"\u003e\n\u003csource src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/5988\/9376\/files\/Lamin_Fofana_It_s_Only_A_Matter_Of_Acceleration_Now_02.mp3?v=1705755866\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\u003e\u003c\/audio\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lamin Fofana","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47564465307996,"sku":"TTT10001","price":22.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/5988\/9376\/files\/LaminFofana_It_sOnlyAMatterOfAccelerationNow.jpg?v=1705755940"},{"product_id":"lamin-fofana-and-the-doudou-ndiaye-rose-family-12","title":"Lamin Fofana And The Doudou Ndiaye Rose Family (12\")","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLamin Fofana – Lamin Fofana And The Doudou Ndiaye Rose Family\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Epic, grooving, extravagantly creative, perfectly attuned blends of complex mbalax drumming, field recordings, thumping kick-drum, and cosmic, bubbling, jamming synths and electronics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe opening is suitably liminal, haunted by a diachronic sense of times past, present, and to come: ancestral ghosts, scratched playback, scraps of old recordings, voices strangulated or just out of range; puttering drums; futuristic, kosmische keys. Part II picks up the pace; III gives the drummers some, and heightens the atmosphere of enchantment. Jon Hassell’s Fourth World music courses through a kind of Dream Theory In Dakar.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eToco SOS, the second side, is a thumping, throbbing, mesmeric future-classic; perfect for fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n on the Autobahn… in a spacecraft. Expert hand percussion, call-and-response singing, bin-trembling foot-drum, spaceways keys. 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