J Walk

A collaboration between a reclusive studio genius and a far more demonstrative record store owner/DJ, this Manchester, England-based partnership merged the abilities and aesthetics of Martin Desai (b. Manchester, Britain), owner of Codebreaker studios and sometime engineer for Andy Votel and Terribly Drawn Boy, and Martin Brew (b. Britain), the proprietor from the Fats City record store and an associate of the Fats City All Celebrities DJ collective. Collectively, the duo drew on the shared devotion for Detroit techno, north soul and classic film soundtracks to generate an interesting, sample-heavy cross both wonderful and funky. Ahead of J-Walk, Brew documented deep dub explorations beneath the Unusual Brew alter ego while Desai was the in-house programmer for Pleasure Information. Both Martins preceded the discharge of the debut album having a triptych of extremely desired and limited seven-inch singles, ‘Spirit Vibration’, ‘French Notice’ and ‘Tearaway’, that elegantly mapped out J-Walk’s globe of mutant funk, filmic atmospherics, and modern northern spirit. The to begin these produces was even consequently cast because the unofficial summer time anthem for the duo’s house city, despite becoming made available within an issue of just 500 copies. The ensuing recording, A Night AROUND THE Rocks, featured each one of these sought-after songs in addition to guest vocal looks from artists such as for example Rae And Christian’s vocalist Veba and Elbow’s Man Garvey in addition to earlier unknowns Pete Simpson and Sarah Hill. As though to emphasise J-Walk’s lifestyle, the sleeve towards the desired launch bore the story ‘’Ave It’. J-Walk offers notably remixed performers as disparate as Baaba Maal, Rae And Christian, Kings Of Comfort, Nitin Sawhney, as well as the Sugababes.