Various Artists - Untitled (18 Artists) (2019)

Untitled (18 Artists)’ revolves a cast of explorative UK + US artists including Mala, Coby Sey, Lord Tusk and Kojey Radical taking physical and metaphorical inspiration from Jean Michel-Basquiat’s art and music just over 30 years since he died in NYC, 1988

Variously influenced by his seminal artwork, as well as his singular music made with Gray - from spiritual guidance to actual samples of their sought-after ‘Early Works’ - the 18 artists involved treat the material with a fine mix of reverence and artistic license, generating highlights between Mala, Joe Armon-Jones, and Nubya Garcia’s rugged jazz rendering of ‘Drum Mode’ as ’Scratch & Erase’ with additional NYC street noise; a banging piece of dancefloor swagger by Lord Tusk in ‘Know Ways’; and the psychedelic abstraction of ‘Response To Michel’ by Maxwell Owin & Coby Sey.

Tracklist:
01. Wu-Lu; Lex Amor; Ego Ella May - Legend (3:41)
02. Layfullstop; Moroka; AJ Kwame - Broadcast by Chocolate (4:47)
03. Lord Tusk; Roxanne Tataej - Know Ways (6:51)
04. Kojey Radical; Shabaka Hutchings - No Gangster (3:34)
05. Mala; Joe Armon-Jones; Nubya Garcia - Scratch & Erase (3:43)
06. =CoN+KwAkE= - Same Ol Samo (5:24)
07. Maxwell Owin; Coby Sey - Response to Michel (2:56)