Silhouette Brown
A little nugget today in celebration of a beautiful first Spring day. Those of you familiar with the West London Broken Beat scene surely know Dego McFarlane (4Hero, 2000 Black) and Kaidi Tatham (Bugz, Agent K). Their new Silhouette Brown project teams the established producers with two of London's most talented vocalists -- Deborah Jordan and Bembe Segue -- and makes a legitimate argument for the guys at Other Music or Satellite to start a Broken R&B section. I remember thinking years ago that Broken Beat would be the perfect bridge to get Americans into more aggressive drum and bass breaks. Save the fleeting Craig David 2-Step rage, I couldn't have been more wrong. Yet this record actually is more of an appropriate bridge between solid contemporary R&B (often mislabeled as neo-soul) and London Broken Beat. It's a much more subtle yet effective way to start sneaking better music onto our payola-powered, cowardly programmed mainstream airwaves. I think after a listen to "Whose in Charge" you will know exactly what I mean.
Silhouette Brown :: "Whose in Charge"
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