Without You

Waiting For You returns now as Without You, transformed by a raft of carefully chosen collaborators. As a curator, Kevin Martin has a highly respected track record. He was behind the groundbreaking Macro Dub Infection, Jazz Satellites and Isolationist compilations in the late 90s, and more recently, selected half of the 'Mysteron Killer Sounds' dancehall set on Soul Jazz. For Without You he has sourced a pool of radical reinterpretations that follow somewhat in the tradition of reggae, in the same way that the original Waiting for You album did. Here instrumentals are reworked or totally rebuilt by a diverse set of artists from across the musical spectrum, and on other tracks, fresh vocal interpretations totally transform the flesh that adorns the bones of their parent rhythms.

It's rare that a compilation of new versions of old tracks will coalesce as naturally and solidly as this; 'Without You' sees all the contributors open them-selves up and step inside the zone of King Midas Sound. Instead of squeezing the ideas of the originals dry, as is the shortcoming of most remix projects, the coherence of Without You takes the original album clear into a new dimension of sound.