SMLP01 : thatmanmonkz "Non Zero Sum Game", by thatmanmonkz

SMLP01 : thatmanmonkz "Non Zero Sum Game"

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of THATMANMONKZ "Uncut Gems", PEPPER SEEDS, NIKKI O "ROUGH, RUGGED, RAW" (ALBUM), HOT PEAS N BUTTER, SHH 02 : MONKZ' STASHBOX RETURNS, SM 21 : MONKZ "EXOSEMIOTICS", TMMRMX01: THATMANMONKZ "The Remixes" (with Waajeed and PPF), SHH 01 : MONKZ' STASHBOX VOL.1, and 21 more. , and , .

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1.	Thee Others (ft. Malik Ameer) 06:27	info	buy track
2.	After Dark (ft. Nikki O) 05:27	info	buy track
3.	Easy, Still (ft. A Brother Is...) 09:52	info	buy track
4.	Sawa Sawa (digital only) 04:21		buy track
5.	Wolf Tickets (digital only) 04:35		buy track
6.	Them Thangs (ft. Ms.Fae) 06:17	info	buy track
7.	Lil' Bit Of Jazz 01:10	info	buy track
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about

It’s a strange new post-everything musical landscape we occupy. The machines - you could argue - have been playing the humans for some time, and the conversation has become pretty one-sided. The focus now is metrics not moments. A million transcendent dance floor events condensed into monetisable data, the compost in which ‘likes’ and ‘solid socials’ are grown, but little else.

Being regularly bludgeoned with forgettable new music has taken its toll. But not everyone is singing from that hymn sheet. Sheffield's Thatmanmonkz enjoyed the apprenticeship at "House PLC" more than the opportunity to progress to middle management.

Itchy musical feet meant extended exploration of fertile avenues of interest like the Madison Washington & Pan Amsterdam Hip Hop projects, meanwhile the pull of the 4/4 was never far from the studio door, and, all accomplished with an assured versatility that shines through. Musical alliances have been formed in the disparate but related playgrounds of Sheffield, Detroit, Berkeley and Atlanta, all underpinned by an emphasis on seeking out collaborations and gigs which represented a real exchange of energies, rather than a bank raid.

Letting things percolate in this more measured way means we’ve arrived here, a follow up of sorts to 2016’s ‘Columbusing’. This is 'monkz allowing the ear ringing of gigs to feedback organically into bright dance floor flashes, which by virtue of their careful crafting are destined to last much longer.

It’s a pick 'em and stick 'em ride of individual gems and a cohesive whole too. The opposite of thrown together, this has been worked and weathered, naturally.

The House always wins, but sometimes... just sometimes.

credits

released October 25, 2019

All tracks Engineered, Arranged, Produced, and Mixed by thatmanmonkz.

1 written by S.Moncrieff, P.Simpson, M.Ameer, L.Thomas. 2 written by S.Moncrieff, S.Covington. 3 written by S.Moncrieff, P.Simpson.6 written by S.Moncrieff, S. Fletcher. 11 written by S.Moncrieff, S.Covington, B.Holland. All other tracks written by S. Moncrieff.

Music by thatmanmonkz. Additional instrumentation : Keys, bass on 1 by P.Simpson, Trumpet by L.Thomas. Bass on 3 by D.Campbell, Saxophone on 3 by M.Ward. Keys, bass on 7 by P.Simpson. Keys on 11 by B.Holland.

Original Cover Art by Gilbert Mkapule, Design by MuSol.
Additional Mixing by Ross Orton.

P and C Shadeleaf Music 2019. All rights reserved.

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Shadeleaf Music Sheffield, UK

Shadeleaf Music is an underground and 100 % independent dance music record label (releases covering house, disco, soulful, boogie, and most things in between) founded in late 2013. It is curated and run by recording artist, producer, and, deejay thatmanmonkz, straight out of Sheffield, UK. ... more

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