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ROOTS MANUVA (UK) with special guests THUNDERHEIST (Canada)
Thursday January 7 - The Palace Theatre
Back for the first time in four years, Niche Productions is proud topresent Roots Manuva with special guests Thunderheist at The PalaceTheatre on Thursday January 7 2010.
Releasing his fourth studio album ‘Slime & Reason' to rave reviewslast year, Roots Manuva is heading back to Australia with his six pieceband to wow audiences with tracks from the new album which gained ravereviews here and around the world including being Triple J's album ofthe week.
Mixing reggae, dub, hip hop and everything in between, Roots Manuvamade ...
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Short Biography
ROOTS MANUVA (UK) with special guests THUNDERHEIST (Canada)
Thursday January 7 - The Palace Theatre
Back for the first time in four years, Niche Productions is proud topresent Roots Manuva with special guests Thunderheist at The PalaceTheatre on Thursday January 7 2010.
Releasing his fourth studio album ‘Slime & Reason' to rave reviewslast year, Roots Manuva is heading back to Australia with his six pieceband to wow audiences with tracks from the new album which gained ravereviews here and around the world including being Triple J's album ofthe week.
Mixing reggae, dub, hip hop and everything in between, Roots Manuvamade his recording debut in 1994 which eventually led to signing withUK institution Ninja Tune's hip hop extension Big Dada and releasinghis debut album ‘Brand New Second Hand' in 1999. ‘Brand New SecondHand' had an original distribution of only 3 000 copies but has gone onto sell over 60 000 copies worldwide. Since releasing his debut album,Roots Manuva has gone on to release a handful of studio and remixalbums, toured the globe and not to mention collaborated with a mixedbag of artists including Chali 2NA, The Cinematic Orchestra, Gorillazand Ninja Tune label mate Mr Scruff.
His second album 'Run Come Save Me' exceeded all expectations with leadsingle 'Witness' receiving high rotation on Triple J as well as beingcrowned as the number one UK hip hop track of all time by the UK's HipHop Connection magazine. Described by Music Week as "One of the UK'smost consistent and engaging acts - whatever the genre", Roots Manuvais one of the most progressive artists in hip hop today with each albumimpressing fans more than the last. Be sure to keep an ear out for theremix and dub version of ‘Slime & Reason' due out in 2010. Alsoappearing on the night will be Canadian electro pop duo Thunderheist.
Comprising of Nigerian-born Isis on vocals and producer Grahm Zilla,Thunderheist played their debut performance in 2006, and released theirself titled debut album earlier this year through Big Dada.
Don't miss this opportunity to see two of Big Dada's finest artists onthe same stage together for the first time along with Melbourne specialguests Thief and Eliza Wolfgramm.
Thursday January 7 - Melbourne - The Palace Theatre Tickets on sale Friday October 30
In-depth Biography
British rapper/producer Rodney Smith established himself as Roots Manuva in the late '90s and began releasing a series of highly regarded albums through Big Dada. Smith's work was firmly rooted in dub and ragga but also incorporated much of the trip-hop style often associated with Ninja Tune, the U.K. imprint that often distributed Big Dada releases. The MC debuted in 1999 with Brand New Second Hand, a promising album that garnered a sizable amount of attention from the international hip-hop crowd and won Britain's coveted MOBO award. Beginning in late 1999, shortly after the album was released, Smith returned to the studio to begin work on Run Come Save Me, his follow-up. He completed the album and released it on Big Dada in 2001; thanks to his own production on the break-out single "Witness (I Hope)," the album became a British hit and increased his world-wide recognition. It narrowly missed winning the prestigious Mercury Prize and spawned an excellent dub album, Dub Come Save Me, released one year later. His third album, the introverted and somewhat constricted Awfully Deep, appeared in 2005 and peaked within the Top 30 of the U.K. album chart. The following year's Alternately Deep, featuring remixes and original tracks recorded around the same time as those of its predecessor, was a looser affair. It hinted at the prospect of material with lighter subject matter, but Slime & Reason, released in 2008, was yet another set based in inward-looking, occasionally grim, content. Wrongtom, who produced versions of seven of the album's cuts for the sake of a two-disc edition, was eventually allowed to do the same with tracks from the entirety of Roots Manuva's catalog. The result of this experiment, Duppy Writer, was issued in 2010. 4everevolution, released the following year, was the most diverse Roots Manuva full-length and included appearances from Skunk Anansie's Skin and Cass Lewis. ~ Jason Birchmeier & Andy Kellman, Rovi
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