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Sunday, February 3 Woo - Roni Size is re-editing New Forms!
Sometimes I'm a little sceptical of artists when they "re-edit" a classic album and rerelease it, but I have faith in the Size. He doesn't mess with a classic formula, especially one which is good enough to win a Mercury Music Prize (before it became shit).
I got this email from the V Cycle shop the other day. D&B fans rejoice!
Roni Size/Reprazent’s New Forms was a benchmark for not just the drum 'n’ bass genre that it leapt from, but for all types of electronic music.
Released a decade ago in 1997, the album’s title was apt with a sound that surpassed any previous drum 'n’ bass efforts and brought the genre to a whole new audience. After catapulting its creators to music’s top table, the crowning achievement was winning the Mercury Prize in the same year, beating the likes of Radiohead, Primal Scream and two of Size’s dance music peers, Chemical Brothers and Prodigy.
To mark this anniversary, Roni Size has returned to re-edit New Forms. "The first generation of heads who were there with the rise of Reprazent & Roni Size will be able to reminisce over the last decade with the classics Brown Paper Bag, Share The Fall & Heroes. The generation of those who missed it will be able to appreciate the album with the new coat of armour I have added to the original tracks. I think fans of the original album always appreciated what we did with the technology of the day. This latest version shows what is possible now."
Three brand new tracks will also be included, including the single Don’t Hold Back, which manages to not only sound like a perfect bedfellow for the original thirteen tracks on New Forms but is also thoroughly contemporary. Not surprising perhaps, considering the timeless quality that Roni Size/Reprazent captured through the likes of Heroes, Share The Fall and the top 20 single Brown Paper Bag. New single, Don’t Hold Back will be released on March 17th, two weeks before the reissue of New Forms.
Also in February, Roni Size/Reprazent will be touring the UK with support from Inner City Dwellers:
Feb 7th Manchester Club Academy Feb 9th Birmingham Que Feb 13th Nottingham Rescue Rooms Feb 14th Leeds Stylus Feb 15th Sheffield Plug Feb 16th Liverpool Barfly Feb 18th Brighton Digital Feb 19th London Scala Feb 20th Bristol Thekla
Keep your eyes peeled for this one... The original album's a must-own, and this re-edit should be a big release for 2008. Excellent.