The first track, Gosh, to be posted online from Jamie xx’s 2015 debut album, In Colour, samples MCs from an unaired Radio 1 One In The Jungle pilot telling you much about Londoner Jamie Smith’s affection for old-school UK dance music, which he filters into his classy, highly modern productions. His album is one of the best of the year so far and its lead single, Loud Place, featuring Romy Madley Croft has been hammered on both Radio 1 and 6 Music in the build up to his second Glastonbury performance in a row.
Aside from his solo work, Smith is a first-rate DJ, remixer (see his edits of Gil Scott-Heron, Florence + The Machine and Adele) and, of course, a member of Mercury-winning minimal pop group The xx with Romy and Oliver Sim. His mixes for the ±«Óătv, including a recent double-header with Four Tet for the Live Lounge, are always excellent; for Glastonbury 2015, you know, as an In Colour song dictates, “there’s gonna be good times”.
The first track, Gosh, to be posted online from Jamie xx’s 2015 debut album, In Colour, samples MCs from an unaired Radio 1 One In The Jungle pilot telling you much about Londoner Jamie Smith’s affection for old-school UK dance music, which he filters into his classy, highly modern productions. His album is one of the best of the year so far and its lead single, Loud Place, featuring Romy Madley Croft has been hammered on both Radio 1 and 6 Music in the build up to his second Glastonbury performance in a row.
Aside from his solo work, Smith is a first-rate DJ, remixer (see his edits of Gil Scott-Heron, Florence + The Machine and Adele) and, of course, a member of Mercury-winning minimal pop group The xx with Romy and Oliver Sim. His mixes for the ±«Óătv, including a recent double-header with Four Tet for the Live Lounge, are always excellent; for Glastonbury 2015, you know, as an In Colour song dictates, “there’s gonna be good times”.
