Dial R For ReeVo E.P

In the spirit of collaboration this is the sound of the US collective known as NØISE (Joe Cassidy, Shepard Fairey, John Goff, Merritt Lear) colliding with the Bristol Hip-Hop duo Ree-Vo (rapper T. Relly and DJ, producer Andy Spaceland).Earlier this year NØISE had remixed Ree-Vo’s ‘Spacebox’ for which Shepard designed the cover (released on 7” red vinyl).As you might hope from the slow boiling cooker that is Bristol’s musical heritage this track has evolved into a bass-heavy thunderstorm of post punk, dub and Hip-Hop. Merritt Lear’s original hypnotic, siren vocal is perfectly poised against Relly’s roll call of injustice and misinformation. It’s a contrast that could easily trip over itself but Andy Spaceland has had years of working on bass music having been signed to Massive Attack’s label, making an album with Horace Andy and more recently working with The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart.As the New York publication The Big Takeover recently observed:“In Bristol it was hip-hop and reggae renegades meeting up with white ex-punk guitarists, alternative pop pioneers hanging out with underground roots music makers, and sound system sonic stalwarts grooving out with rave’s space cadets. If you think that such an eclectic melting pot ever went away, you would be wrong. Ree-Vo is all the proof you need”Or in the words of T. Relly - "Our sound has the life blood of sound-system bass culture carried through veins of hip-hop and rave. I describe it like that BCuz it’s a live and living thing not just a sound, though essentially it is Bristol Dirt".