Owiny Sigoma Band At Juno Download

Review: "Here On The Line" was one of the standout tracks from the Owiny Sigoma Band's eponymous debut album released this summer, and here it receives a welcome single release alongside a remix from the band's drummer Tom Skinner in his Stalker guise. The original is a bronze toned, summery cut, filled with hypnotic nyatiti melodies, and brushed acoustic guitar giving the track a folky quality. The contrast offered in Stalker's dub version couldn't be more pronounced; stripping the original right back to a single guitar line, clattering rhythm and restless bassline, its cavernous production style takes heavy influence from dub, but with the light melodicism of an Ennio Morricone soundtrack.

Review: Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label drops a very special release for Record Store Day - an incredible mix of OSB's "Wires" from Detroit's favourite son, Theo Parrish. Done quickly and on the fly at Floating Points' Eglo studio, TP's mix of this London/Nairobi project is simply astonishing - keeping the Afrobeat textures but stripping the tune down to bass, urgent hats, some rogue toms, cooing vocals and a lot of compression. Parrish adds some subs to the incredible b-line, but otherwise it's pure, spooky-funk genius.