State of Grace - Touching the TimesFreestyle's run of reissues continues with the sought after 1983 UK electro funk of State of Grace's Touching the Times getting a freshly remastered 12" cut! State of Grace were a trio formed at the start of the 80s, releasing a handful of singles between 1981 and '84. As SoG's David Inglesfield recalls, "in early 1982 we recorded 4 track demos of 'That's When We'll Be Free', 'Touching the Times' and a third song. When we played them to Mike Collier,

most appealing to modern ears

broken-beat of the MA

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‘Future’ then delivers a juggernaut for your bass bins packing a pacey concoction of breakbeat and bass before ‘The Awakening’ concludes the voyage through its trance melodies and otherworldly pads

Set against the backdrop of Birmingham in1990

’ – says Sandilé

B4 - Café Paris

dystopian sci-fi and climate change into 10 new songs

This is not reggae or Lovers as known

the quartet's sound still drips with rhythm

Full of space and room to breathe

The Berlin-relocated Englishman now escapes from his home platforms Galdoors and Dote to land a round of his typically atypical dub blends and elegantly pared-down electronics on KOC