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Russell and The xx / King Krule producer Rodaidh McDonald team up after a trip to Ethiopia to bring you experimental electronic sounds, loops and samples interlaced with soundbites and cut ups of traditional African sounds. The result is similar to Honest Jon's series of Shangaan Electro remakes, but meshed with the kind of submerged synthwave moodiness of labels like Tri Angle etc. Hypnotic, shamanic rhythms, gnarled synth lines, loose percussive loops and African chants - it's a heady mix! The EP includes foru track to get your global synthwave ears round.

This release is a follow up to a project from last year where both Richard and Rodaidh teamed up with Damon Albarn, TEED, Actress and Kwes among others to produce an album for Oxfam in the Democratic Republic of Congo entitled DRC Music.