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beat spacek - modern streets - ninja tune - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: Hip Hop - Experimental / Electronic

1. I Wanna Know
2. Tonight
3. Inflight Wave
4. Modern Streets
5. I Want You
6. Gotta Get Some Music
7. If You Are My Chalice
8. There Is A Love
9. Stand Firm
10. Compact N Sleep
11. Back To School
12. You're The Only One
13. Alone In Da Su

Beat Spacek is the latest project from UK vocalist / producer Steve Spacek

Created largely using iPhone and iPad apps, the album once again finds Steve liberated through new technologies, excited by the prospects of �the new� whilst expressing notions of the past. It�s a journey through the evolution of modern Britain from a futurist perspective.

Framed against a particular period in the 1980s when Steve was growing up as a young man in New Cross, South East London, Modern Streets is rooted in the duality of the past and the future. Flim-Flams was the club where he first experienced the clash of sounds and styles that characterised South London�s racial, ethnic and cultural melting pot. A spot where Punks, Soul Heads, New Romantics, Dread Locks and Skinheads all converged brought together through a love of music and new sounds.

From the paranoid, post-punk, sleng teng musings of "I Wanna Know" to the nu wave pop-powered love song "Inflight Wave", Modern Streets is a direct reflection of that experience, envisioned through the mind of a 21st Century Rudeboy. Ghanaian Highlife is re-imagined in digital form on "Tonight"; "Stand Firm" tips its hat to the dancehall with a futuristic rinse; whilst the sub-bass powered anthem "Alone in Da Sun" draws on the finest elements of dubstep�s sonic vocabulary and reworks them into a loose, new age club jam, brimming with soul and charisma