Among the strongest, most enduring classics of its era, Roots Manuva’s ‘Run Come Save Me’ is back on road, in reissue circulation on an anniversary edition.
Recipient of all the superlatives then and now, ‘Run Come Save Me’ is emblematic of an era when British hip hop was finding it’s own voice, distinct from the overwhelming influence of US rap. It emerged in the years just prior to grime with a sound landing at the square roots of dub, ragga dancehall bashment, rap and electronica with a particular UK lean and playfulness that saw it transcend borders to pack dances and shelves alongside the likes of your Skinnyman and The Streets albums, maybe adjacent DJ Vadim, Nas, Jurassic 5 and Solesides, or Mo Wax collections.
It was perhaps one of the last eras when such albums like this could amass a cross-cultural capital, due the relative lack of options that were in the process of being rendered wide open by the Internet, and has surely lodged in the minds of so many who came thru in that era. There will be many still who never got beyond the anthemic phenomemon ‘Witness (1 Hope)’, but rustle a little deeper and the album is peppered with nuggets in the squashed acidic swivel of ‘Bashment Boogie’, the weirdo red-eyed strut of ‘Kicking The Cack’ and the skewed UK swagger of ‘Swords in the Dirt’, perhaps a clear nod to RZA, but starring a roll-call of UK rap’s best of the time; Fallacy, Rodney P, Big P.
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Among the strongest, most enduring classics of its era, Roots Manuva’s ‘Run Come Save Me’ is back on road, in reissue circulation on an anniversary edition.
Recipient of all the superlatives then and now, ‘Run Come Save Me’ is emblematic of an era when British hip hop was finding it’s own voice, distinct from the overwhelming influence of US rap. It emerged in the years just prior to grime with a sound landing at the square roots of dub, ragga dancehall bashment, rap and electronica with a particular UK lean and playfulness that saw it transcend borders to pack dances and shelves alongside the likes of your Skinnyman and The Streets albums, maybe adjacent DJ Vadim, Nas, Jurassic 5 and Solesides, or Mo Wax collections.
It was perhaps one of the last eras when such albums like this could amass a cross-cultural capital, due the relative lack of options that were in the process of being rendered wide open by the Internet, and has surely lodged in the minds of so many who came thru in that era. There will be many still who never got beyond the anthemic phenomemon ‘Witness (1 Hope)’, but rustle a little deeper and the album is peppered with nuggets in the squashed acidic swivel of ‘Bashment Boogie’, the weirdo red-eyed strut of ‘Kicking The Cack’ and the skewed UK swagger of ‘Swords in the Dirt’, perhaps a clear nod to RZA, but starring a roll-call of UK rap’s best of the time; Fallacy, Rodney P, Big P.
Among the strongest, most enduring classics of its era, Roots Manuva’s ‘Run Come Save Me’ is back on road, in reissue circulation on an anniversary edition.
Recipient of all the superlatives then and now, ‘Run Come Save Me’ is emblematic of an era when British hip hop was finding it’s own voice, distinct from the overwhelming influence of US rap. It emerged in the years just prior to grime with a sound landing at the square roots of dub, ragga dancehall bashment, rap and electronica with a particular UK lean and playfulness that saw it transcend borders to pack dances and shelves alongside the likes of your Skinnyman and The Streets albums, maybe adjacent DJ Vadim, Nas, Jurassic 5 and Solesides, or Mo Wax collections.
It was perhaps one of the last eras when such albums like this could amass a cross-cultural capital, due the relative lack of options that were in the process of being rendered wide open by the Internet, and has surely lodged in the minds of so many who came thru in that era. There will be many still who never got beyond the anthemic phenomemon ‘Witness (1 Hope)’, but rustle a little deeper and the album is peppered with nuggets in the squashed acidic swivel of ‘Bashment Boogie’, the weirdo red-eyed strut of ‘Kicking The Cack’ and the skewed UK swagger of ‘Swords in the Dirt’, perhaps a clear nod to RZA, but starring a roll-call of UK rap’s best of the time; Fallacy, Rodney P, Big P.
2024 Reissue. 2LP 140G red vinyl housed in a matte sleeve, same artwork as the original.
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Among the strongest, most enduring classics of its era, Roots Manuva’s ‘Run Come Save Me’ is back on road, in reissue circulation on an anniversary edition.
Recipient of all the superlatives then and now, ‘Run Come Save Me’ is emblematic of an era when British hip hop was finding it’s own voice, distinct from the overwhelming influence of US rap. It emerged in the years just prior to grime with a sound landing at the square roots of dub, ragga dancehall bashment, rap and electronica with a particular UK lean and playfulness that saw it transcend borders to pack dances and shelves alongside the likes of your Skinnyman and The Streets albums, maybe adjacent DJ Vadim, Nas, Jurassic 5 and Solesides, or Mo Wax collections.
It was perhaps one of the last eras when such albums like this could amass a cross-cultural capital, due the relative lack of options that were in the process of being rendered wide open by the Internet, and has surely lodged in the minds of so many who came thru in that era. There will be many still who never got beyond the anthemic phenomemon ‘Witness (1 Hope)’, but rustle a little deeper and the album is peppered with nuggets in the squashed acidic swivel of ‘Bashment Boogie’, the weirdo red-eyed strut of ‘Kicking The Cack’ and the skewed UK swagger of ‘Swords in the Dirt’, perhaps a clear nod to RZA, but starring a roll-call of UK rap’s best of the time; Fallacy, Rodney P, Big P.