Time For Something New, by Essa (formerly Yungun)

Time For Something New

by Essa (formerly Yungun)

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Matthew Essa ten steps ahead of the rest, should've guessed... Favorite track: Panache (prod. Waajeed).

H P White This track is painfully good. Favorite track: Panache (LV Remix).

Joecriv Essa's back in a huge way! Fantastic stuff. Favorite track: Let's Start Living ft Inspectah Deck & Skinny Man (prod. Finn Peters).

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1.	Something New (prod. Simbad) 03:52	info	buy track
2.	Panache (prod. Waajeed) 04:01	info	buy track
3.	Let's Start Living ft Inspectah Deck & Skinny Man (prod. Finn Peters) 04:13	info	buy track
4.	A Walk In The Park ft Jessica Greenfield (prod. Sid Mercutio) 03:09	info	buy track
5.	Panache (LV Remix) 04:37	info	buy track

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First Word are proud to present Time For Something New, the FW debut from Essa. He's no newbie though - under his former name, Yungun, he rose through the UK Hip-Hop ranks to reach a worldwide audience winning praise from Nas, Mark Ronson and Cody ChesnuTT. With a new label and a new(ish!) name comes a new musical direction... Time For Something New! He's roped in collaborators as diverse as Simbad (Gilles Peterson Worldwide Family), Waajeed (Slum Village / PPP), Finn Peters (Bansuri / Accidental Records), plus UK Hip-Hop legend Skinny Man and Wu-Tang Clan's Inspectah Deck. Add in a remix from Hyperdub rising stars LV and you have a release that leaps over musical boundaries.

The EP takes in latin-fuelled bass music (Something New), low-slung anthemic hip hop (Let's Start Living & Panache) and nu soul (A Walk in The Park) with LV's Panache remix adding minimal, claustrophobic club beats to the mix. Tying it all together is Essa's powerful lyrical flow, his on-point rhymes effortlessly blending serious subject matter with witty one-liners. The EP is a taste of things to come, showing that, beyond tight rhymes and banging beats, there is real song-writing ability here. Look out for his new album 'The Middle Man' due in 2013.

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released November 5, 2012

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Essa London, UK

A lyricist, lawyer and a Londoner, Essa initially released music under the name Yungun in the early noughties, in the midst of UK hip hop's own "golden era". He earned praise from artists such as Nas and Mark Ronson, and performed and recorded with such luminaries as De La Soul, Wu-Tang Clan, Guru, Slum Village and Pharoahe Monch. ... more

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