Breakage’s new LP Foundation and that Burial colab
Donaeo can produce, MC, sing… and act!!! The full package! One of the greatest UK artists in recent decades.
Amazing video. Big up Shy FX, Digital Soundboy is running tings…
While the above is very flattering I think it’s safe to say Donae’o is a stand-out breakthrough artist at the minute and defiantly one to watch in future. He features on two tracks Speechless, shown above and Riot Music. The 12 inch release of Riot Music came out this week and features a 145 bpm remix from Skream.
Donaeo - Riot Music - Skreamix by SKREAMIZMOther notable tracks on the album include Hard, a reworking of the anthem Together Ft. David Rodigan with additional vocals from Grime outfit Newham Generals which I blogged about back in October. Another interesting colab is with DnB emcee Kemo. Listen to it here: Temper (Breakage ft. KEMO) by KEMO MC
Foundation Tracklisting:
- Open Up
- Hardcore Music (Interlude)
- Hard feat. Newham Generals & David Rodigan
- Digiboy Radio (Interlude)
- Old Skool Ting
- Squid Bass (Interlude)
- Run Em Out feat. Roots Manuva
- Temper feat. Kemo
- Over feat. Zarif
- Higher
- Foundation
- Justified feat. Erin
- Vial feat. Burial
- Speechless feat. Donae’o
- If… (Interlude)
Breakage has also remixed a track called Paradise Circus from Massive Attack’s forthcoming album Heligoland and you can download it right here for free. (Right Click, Save As).
One of the more notable tracks on the album is Vial, a collaboration with low-key Londoner Burial.
Online retailer Boomkat had this to say about the track:
“Blatantly, the Burial link-up on ‘Vial’ is one of the biggest attractions. Thankfully, it’s also worth the investment too, finding solid ground between Burial’s quicksilver slink and Breakage’s tuff bass-sculpting.”
Pitchfork had a different perspective:
“”Vial” is more sedate than those tracks, and in its arrangement of heavy bass over a ghostly instrumental, sounds, well, a lot like a Burial song. It has all the hallmarks of Bevan’s work: 2-step sputter, manipulated vocals, and distant, clattering percussion. There’s nothing wrong with “Vial” per se, but it seems odd that Burial would want to collaborate on what’s essentially a paint-by-the-numbers reworking of the style he so successfully concocted with Untrue. If anything, it makes you even more curious about what he’s been cooking up in the meantime.”
Listen to it here:
Some other recent Burial collaborations you might not have heard of include an untitled track with Flying Lotus and another with Garage producer El-B, forthcoming on the Nu Levels label. Breakage’s album Foundation officially drops on March 22, we should have our preorder copies in store a little earlier on March 18th with restocks arriving March 25th.