2000 Black | A Next Set A Rockers
Aug 14th, 2008 by Deviation
Dego & Kaidi Tatham are two of London Town’s most important musical visionaries, always having pioneered forward thinking soulful music across all tempos, never restrained by genre, only influenced by quality. Dego has been running 2000 Black Records for 10 years now - or at least it feels like it was somewhere around ‘98 when we first heard the "Dumped Funk" 12" on the label - a tune that still makes it to the record box from time to time. Kaidi Tatham - who possesses a musical genius and god given talent that makes many describe him as London’s Herbie Hancock - has been contributing the harmony and melody to much of the progressive club music to come out of the UK capital for the last decade. So it is fitting that after ten years of sporadic releases available only to specialist vinyl buyers (and those lucky enough to hear their various dub plates in the club over the years), that Dego & Kaidi should adopt the "2000 Black" moniker and present a collection of the recordings from the last few years available on a beautifully mastered CD.
Entitled "A Next Set A Rockers", the LP features regular collaborators on vocals including Face, Vanessa Freeman, Ty, Nadine Charles and Philly legend, Lady Alma. Finally seeing the light of day is the full vocal version of "Got Me Puzzled", arguably Dego & Kaidi’s most popular tune to date - the 12" version only featured the chorus but there has always been talk of a full vocal version being released. Also on the album is "Lost It" - made famous by Face’s live performances at 2000 Black shows, a new tune featuring Lady Alma "Move Over", and London boogie Jam "Simple Sacrifice" with the unmistakable sound of Kaidi’s old school synthesizer collection sounding so warm and strangely futuristic in contrast to so much of today’s cold and empty digital feel.
Currently released with limited paper and card sleeve in Japan via Third Ear Recordings, its possible to pick this up right away on Japanese Import. If you can wait though - it will be released in the UK on 2000 Black Records on 8th Sept 2008, both physical and digital formats.
2000 Black: "A Next Set A Rockers" (2000 Black) Tracklisting
1. Simple Sacrifice ft Nadine Charles
2. So Righ tft Ferraz
3. Febulous
4. Dont Make Me Hurt You ft Face
5. Lost It ft Face
6. If You Got 3 Wishes
7. Move Over ft Lady Alma
8. Take It Back ft Rasiyah
9. Whats It To Be ft Ferraz
10. A Little More ft Baby
11. Got Me Puzzled ft Face
12. Dealt A Bad Hand ft Vanessa Freeman
13. Hey There Feat ft Ty
14. (Hidden Track) - Ain’t Nothing you Can’t Feel ft Face
I’ll definitely be queuing up for this.
2000black’s stuff is difficult to track down, so I’ll appreciate a compo like this.
Here’s to the next 10 years guys!
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Heard the track “If you got three wishes” at a function last night….. best broken beat tune i have heard in a long time….. i will be purchasing the album……..
I’m in London from NYC, looking to hear some good music. I’m a huge fan of 2000 Black, 4Hero, etc… Any suggestions on where I can go to hear a good tune or two?
Heard Move Over amongst others first on a weekly Saturday broadcast I’m a huge fan of (The Morpheus Soul Show) Very hard to track this album down but at least (finally) I have my copy and I’m a very satisfied customer!! Great production of tracks, my faves; of course ‘Got me Puzzled’, ‘What’s It to be’, ‘Move Over’, ‘Don’t Make me Hurt You’ and ‘If you got wishes’. Special mention for Lady Alma her vocals kills it… all in all a heavy weight album. An unquestionable buy for everyone’s collection! Mcfarlan & Tatham got the goods!!
I love Febulous this is by far one of my favourite songs