Tre Mission - Stigmata

Tre Mission - StigmataThe first full album from Torontos Tre Mission, Stigmata achieves something remarkable. He takes a genre which we think we know and which, in all honesty, he should have no right interfering with. Then he re shapes it into something entirely new. Coming over as the missing link between Wiley and Outkast, Mission elaborates the connections (via his own roots in the Caribbean) between UK grime and North American rap and makes the whole thing sound as

producer and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Phillips

classy electronic pop is at the fore

we know what you're thinking

‘Sometimes Words Are Too Slow’ explores a larger template with its wailing strings and marching drums

its groove belying its 147 BPMs and its energy barely contained

The record was framed by impeccable design across the campaign from Portuguese collective Royal Studio

Eric San wanted an E-mu SP-1200 sampler – the Ark of the Covenent of hip hop production

Anyone who loves John Williams

Daedelus himself is dragged from the stage and detained indefinitely in a mental hospital in Chicago and stays there until his mysterious disappearance on May 29th 1913

soul voice on the international stage

that was the On-U influence

Songs have the ability to free us from what troubles occupy our minds