Our lovely friend and long time collaborator, and now NuNorthern Soul artist Benjamin James Smith has just been featured on the NME Selector show hosted by Goldierocks... He does his stripped back acoustic thang on 'Cortisol' which features on the 'Movedrill Projects' album that we have released then he flips the stone cold Hip Hop classic, 'Runnin'' by The Pharcyde into a Folk fuelled sing-a-long.
Perhaps calling it a record label is not correct and proper in the time of digital and CD releases, but we are releasing music and we would have certainly put this to vinyl had it not been so darn expensive...
We have taken the plunge, we are releasing an album of joyous music from long time friend of NuNorthern Soul, Benjamin James Smith.
Ben has been involved with NuNorthern Soul after a mutual friend introduced Ben to Phat Phil after Phil had been gushing about how much he enjoyed the musical outputs of Mr Smith, a meeting was arranged, a few pints of the Irish black stuff sunk, and music was discussed... The end result was Ben agreeing to put the first album out on the NuNorthern Soul label!!!
Benjamin James Smith presents The Movedrill Projects is a journey that has seen Ben working with several collaborators across a 10 year span. Musically NuNorthern Soul like to describe it as Gruff Rhys meets The Beach Boys on a Balearic Folk meltdown...
If you like what you hear please share the tracks, you can also pre-order the digital album below or the CD now from Amazon, release date is the 25th June...
