So Richy Pitch’s long awaited ‘Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch’ offering is almost ripe to drop on the ever-reliable BBE imprint. If  you didn’t believe me when I told you the album was heat, then prepare to be converted…

To heighten our  excitement, Richy has put together a mix featuring some exclusives from the LP, joints from M3nsa’s forthcoming ‘No. 1 Mango Street’ project, M3nsa and Wanlov’s FOKN Bois excursion, some sweet West African selections from times gone by, classic treats from Madlib, Dilla and J Period and some new-school afro antics from Fulgeance and Debruit. In short, you need to hear it.

Unfortunately, Soundcloud embeds just don’t like behaving on the HH site so you can either listen and download below or make the jump to Richy’s Soundcloud here. Either way, make sure you keep the link and support the LP when it drops. Enjoy…

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Tracklisting

1. African Rhythms//Jay Dilla
2. Jungle Soundz Pt.1//Madlib
3. Where I’m From//A.R.M (from the forthcoming LP Uprising)
4. Let’s Start//Fela Kuti
5. Let’s Start Fela Tribute//J.Period & K’naan
6. Tribute to Hugh Masekela//Fulgeance
7. COZ OV MONI//FOKN BOIS (aka Wanlov the Kubolor and M3NSA, from the first ever Pidgin Musical “COZ OV MONI’ (Summer 2010))
8. Make it Fast, Make it Slow//ROB (Richy Pitch RE-Edit (Promo Only))
9. Anaa//M3NSA (from the forthcoming LP ‘No.1 Mango St)
10. Nokofio//DJ Juls Instrumental (Promo Only)
11. Visa Connection Man//Richy Pitch feat. Reggie Rockstone & M3NSA (from the forthcoming LP ‘Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch’)
12. Funky Highlife//CK Mann
13. Dey Suffer (DJ Edit)//Richy Pitch feat. Yasmeen (from the forthcoming LP ‘Ye Fre Mi Richy Pitch’)
14. Government Magic (Swag’s Tinpot Coup D’etat Dub)//Antibalas & Swag
15. Nigeria What?//Debruit
16. Kokrohinko//Bunzu Soundz
17. Kpanlogo//Ghanian Traditional Music produced by Faisal Helwani

Richy’s LP is out on June 7th and features Mobo and MTV winner Samini, Hiplife pioneer Reggie Rockstone, M3NSA, Wanlov the Kubolor, M.anifest, Yasmeen, Kwesi Dankwa, AB and DJ Black.

Continuing with the African theme, I’ve been putting together a couple of articles around Richy Pitch’s ‘Ye Fre Mi Richy LP‘ set to drop in June on the ever-reliable BBE imprint. Watch this space for more info on the full pieces, but in the meantime, here’s a most excellent video for ‘Blackstar’, the first single release from the LP featuring US dwelling Ghanaian wordsmith M.anifest.

In some ways, ‘Blackstar’ is probably the least ‘African’ (in a traditional sense) cut on the album. It was actually my least favourite at first but it’s definately a grower. Props to Stringmouse for the video – takes me back to the days when computers took tapes and Mum took care of my washing. Good times….

BBE and Bugz in the Attic have named this night “Legends” and rightly so. Somehow they have managed to recruit Carl Craig (Detroit), John Morales (NYC) and Victor Simonelli (NYC) for the event. If you are not familiar with these people, just think about some of the pioneers of electronic music and you’re beginning to get an idea of the magnitude of this party. I can guarantee that the djs tonight will sample a spectrum of sounds from techno to disco – so leave your preferences at home.

I wont go on too much but if you were wondering where the party’s at on a Sunday night in London…? It’s gonna be here for sure.

… Oh and you also have BBE and Bugz djs keeping things ticking. See below for details.

Sunday 29th November at East Village.

8pm – 1:30am

£5