Key grime mutator and dancehall-tekno shapeshifter Mr. Mitch bares his soul on his first album in 3 years with in a mix of weightless ambient grime and deep club cuts inspired by a trip to Nigeria and the passing of his father, and following on from lighter diversions as DJ Cuddles.
‘The Lost Boy’ continues to instrumentally expand themes of memory, faith, love and loss within a style embedded in London but porous to classic and fresh strains of jazz, ambient, soul, and house. It’s his most heart-on-sleeve and grown-up record, contouring life experiences with a balance of pathos and bathos that teeters track to track as he builds on examples set across the decade, both in his albums for Planet Mu, programming of the pivotal Boxed night that carried grime thru its post-peak years, and likewise refracted brilliantly across the Gobstopper roster of Dark0, BFTT, Nikki Nair, et al.
With a signature lightness of touch where it matters, and equally an ability to prompt yr hips to move, he effortlessly switches between liquid grime on ‘Replicant’ to Logos-like sci-fi futurism on closer ‘The Veil’. Nostalgic flashbacks to formative gaming arise in the weightless romance and title of ‘Metroid’, whilst the purring deep UK house of ‘Smitten’ could almost be a Joy O cut, and shares a grooving insistence with the dialled down glyde of ‘Shoulder’, the soulful shimmy ‘LIFECANBEHARD’, and Ghostphone adjacent R&G flutter of ‘My Precious’.
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Key grime mutator and dancehall-tekno shapeshifter Mr. Mitch bares his soul on his first album in 3 years with in a mix of weightless ambient grime and deep club cuts inspired by a trip to Nigeria and the passing of his father, and following on from lighter diversions as DJ Cuddles.
‘The Lost Boy’ continues to instrumentally expand themes of memory, faith, love and loss within a style embedded in London but porous to classic and fresh strains of jazz, ambient, soul, and house. It’s his most heart-on-sleeve and grown-up record, contouring life experiences with a balance of pathos and bathos that teeters track to track as he builds on examples set across the decade, both in his albums for Planet Mu, programming of the pivotal Boxed night that carried grime thru its post-peak years, and likewise refracted brilliantly across the Gobstopper roster of Dark0, BFTT, Nikki Nair, et al.
With a signature lightness of touch where it matters, and equally an ability to prompt yr hips to move, he effortlessly switches between liquid grime on ‘Replicant’ to Logos-like sci-fi futurism on closer ‘The Veil’. Nostalgic flashbacks to formative gaming arise in the weightless romance and title of ‘Metroid’, whilst the purring deep UK house of ‘Smitten’ could almost be a Joy O cut, and shares a grooving insistence with the dialled down glyde of ‘Shoulder’, the soulful shimmy ‘LIFECANBEHARD’, and Ghostphone adjacent R&G flutter of ‘My Precious’.
Key grime mutator and dancehall-tekno shapeshifter Mr. Mitch bares his soul on his first album in 3 years with in a mix of weightless ambient grime and deep club cuts inspired by a trip to Nigeria and the passing of his father, and following on from lighter diversions as DJ Cuddles.
‘The Lost Boy’ continues to instrumentally expand themes of memory, faith, love and loss within a style embedded in London but porous to classic and fresh strains of jazz, ambient, soul, and house. It’s his most heart-on-sleeve and grown-up record, contouring life experiences with a balance of pathos and bathos that teeters track to track as he builds on examples set across the decade, both in his albums for Planet Mu, programming of the pivotal Boxed night that carried grime thru its post-peak years, and likewise refracted brilliantly across the Gobstopper roster of Dark0, BFTT, Nikki Nair, et al.
With a signature lightness of touch where it matters, and equally an ability to prompt yr hips to move, he effortlessly switches between liquid grime on ‘Replicant’ to Logos-like sci-fi futurism on closer ‘The Veil’. Nostalgic flashbacks to formative gaming arise in the weightless romance and title of ‘Metroid’, whilst the purring deep UK house of ‘Smitten’ could almost be a Joy O cut, and shares a grooving insistence with the dialled down glyde of ‘Shoulder’, the soulful shimmy ‘LIFECANBEHARD’, and Ghostphone adjacent R&G flutter of ‘My Precious’.
Key grime mutator and dancehall-tekno shapeshifter Mr. Mitch bares his soul on his first album in 3 years with in a mix of weightless ambient grime and deep club cuts inspired by a trip to Nigeria and the passing of his father, and following on from lighter diversions as DJ Cuddles.
‘The Lost Boy’ continues to instrumentally expand themes of memory, faith, love and loss within a style embedded in London but porous to classic and fresh strains of jazz, ambient, soul, and house. It’s his most heart-on-sleeve and grown-up record, contouring life experiences with a balance of pathos and bathos that teeters track to track as he builds on examples set across the decade, both in his albums for Planet Mu, programming of the pivotal Boxed night that carried grime thru its post-peak years, and likewise refracted brilliantly across the Gobstopper roster of Dark0, BFTT, Nikki Nair, et al.
With a signature lightness of touch where it matters, and equally an ability to prompt yr hips to move, he effortlessly switches between liquid grime on ‘Replicant’ to Logos-like sci-fi futurism on closer ‘The Veil’. Nostalgic flashbacks to formative gaming arise in the weightless romance and title of ‘Metroid’, whilst the purring deep UK house of ‘Smitten’ could almost be a Joy O cut, and shares a grooving insistence with the dialled down glyde of ‘Shoulder’, the soulful shimmy ‘LIFECANBEHARD’, and Ghostphone adjacent R&G flutter of ‘My Precious’.