BLK JKS 'More Afrika' [Midnight Rockers Express Edit]
South African rock band the BLK JKS stream an unreleased dub track "More Afrika (MRE Edit)" courtesy of Midnight Rockers Express
<p>Unreleased <strong>BLK JKS</strong> material! Just after midnight seems like the most auspicious time to be releasing this rarest of birds--an instrumental dub edit of a never before heard track by South African rock experimentalists BLK JKS--into the New York night. The session/composition is called "More Afrika (MRE Edit)" and comes our way by kind permission of <strong>Lee Harrison</strong> of the <a href="https://soundcloud.com/midnight-rockers-express" target="_blank"><strong>Midnight Rockers Express</strong> soundsystem</a> (who was present at its creation). The track originated from a jam session by the JKS in which they were intending to supply parts for a project by tech-house producer <strong>Osborne</strong>, a follow-up to a noted EP of his called "Afrika," hence the working title here as "More Afrika" (Osborne earlier that year had remixed the band's "Mystery," which became a top 12" pick at London's Phonica record shop and tipped by tastemaker DJ's such as <strong>Joe Goddard</strong> of <strong>Hot Chip</strong>). MRE was then asked by the JKS management to re-work a minute-plus section from the session into something sounding more like a finished record so, as Lee relates:</p><p><div class="preroll-video"></div><ora-player></ora-player></p><p></p><blockquote>We pulled the jam apart and put it back together into this dubbed-out groove which stayed labeled in the files as "More Afrika."</blockquote><p>And there you have it--straight from the MRE dub-cutter to god's ears (and now yours). Stream the track below via Okayafrica's soundcloud page and imagine the desert dub goodness that could yet result if the JKS apply a similar approach to their recently tipped forays into Mali rock via <a href="http://www.okayafrica.com/2013/01/23/african-music-blk-jks-viuex-farka-toure/" target="_blank">collaboration with <strong>Vieux Farka Touré</strong></a>. 2013 be good to us.</p><p><iframe frameborder="no" height="166" scrolling="no" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F77895314&color=1c120b&auto_play=false&show_artwork=true" width="100%"></iframe></p>
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