Moses Boyd – Dark Matter

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Moses Boyd is a drummer in the same way Questlove from the Roots is a drummer, which is to say that the twice Mobo-winning 28-year-old Londoner is a producer-composer-collaborator-influencer not bound by the kit surrounding him. A progenitor of the current London jazz scene, Boyds official solo debut goes large on cross-pollination and dancing.

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Whereas Boyds previous Mobo-winning duo with the saxophonist Binker Golding and his Exodus ensemble remained more or less on-genre, Dark Matter exists very much in the wake of Boyds breakout track of 2016, Rye Lane Shuffle (which featured Four Tet and Floating Points on mixes). This is the London hybrid jazz of now a party-facing electronic record that takes note of Afrobeats, two-step garage and Boyds travels in South Africa.- The Guardian