Roots Manuva and Toddla T will be the source of some major heat waves this summer, from spontaneous combustion on the dancefloor to sweltering temperatures in the the streets.

It started with a seemingly innocent video from the Sheffeel producer and the cross-cultured lyricist, called “Sound Tape Killin”. I’ve been MAD about that tune since I first heard it/posted it, moments before it induced an early Spring in the western States. Then, the video for “Buff Nuff” appeared on the web and, despite a truckload of ice cream on the scene, ladies swooned and nearly melted anytime Manuva was in the vicinity. Roots Man handed out the frozen treats as quickly as possible, but was unable to reverse the feverish effects of Toddla T’s smokin dancehall riddim.

Slime & Reason Is IN This Season

Now, the impending release of a new Roots Manuva album and the subsequent rise in body temperatures threatens to warm the globe like a Bikram yoga classroom. A world filled with sizzling hot bodies, buff enuff to bounce a quarter (or quarter OZ) off of and glistening with sugary sweat, all because 2 English lads combined Slime & Reason in 2008. Like PB and J, ice cream and exercise, love, war, sex, drugs, and rock and roll, Slime & Reason represents 2 very different sounds that were meant to be mixed together for the betterment of humankind. But there’s plenty of tunes on the album I haven’t heard yet, so I’m sure Roots and T will enlighten us soon enough. In the meantime, invest in lemonade stands, ice machines and igloo-rich real estate, coz it’s gonna be a wicked hot summer!

More deets from the press release:

Feel like something is missing from your life? Not quite sure what? Is it a new record from Roots Manuva? Or a beautiful body beside you in bed? Either way, all your problems are solved.

Mr Manuva comes blazing back into action with the wonderful “Buff Nuff,” a slice of Sheffield dancehall cooked up by the so-hot-it-hurts Toddla T, mixed by the mighty Ross Orton (M.I.A. etc) and weighed down with lyrical wonderment and silly genius by the one and only Rodney Smith.

Manuva’s own productions range from the skanking carnival anthem “Again & Again,” through the melancholy funk of “C.R.U.F.F.,” the electro-Bach rhythms of “Kick Up Ya Foot,” the lof-fi Gospel of “A Man’s Talk,” the roots stylings of “The Show Must Go On” and the analog-synth attack of “It’s Me Oh Lord.”

But as a vocalist, Roots has also been reinvigorated working with young producers Toddla T and Metronomy. There are three Toddla tracks here (including “Buff Nuff,” the first single taken from the album) and they represent some of the funniest, most loose-limbed music Rodney has produced in years. In addition, Metronomy’s “Let The Spirit” is one of the standouts of the record – a gorgeous piece of “blue-eyed” electro-funk which will be soundtracking our lives for a long time to come.

Links

Roots Manuva Website
Roots Manuva my$pace
Toddla T my$pace
Big Dada
“Sound Tape Killin”

See if you can find these geezas:

and this guy:

in this new Toddla T video – “Sound Tape Killin”:

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