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It’s debut album time for Peckham’s Wbeeza. After three well-received eps on Third Ear Recordings, he has been packaged as ‘the House Music traditionalists’ saviour’ in some quarters. But this doesn’t explain his favour with UK Bass music’s party promoters and artists, and with the new generation of dancers who don’t know what House music is any more than they know who Frankie Knuckles is. Wbeeza’s music is clearly steeped in House music. But it’s the musicality of House and the honesty of House music that he is vibing on, and that comes from music before House. He has an identifiable sound which goes beyond House into Hip Hop, Funk, minimalism, slo mo beats, Jazz, dissonance, Techno (which is House anyway according to many who make Techno) and yes, the bass. Wbeeza’s kick drum manipulations and bass frequency modulation, heard clearly in his live show are driving his popularity with the bass heads in the current UK scene as much as his single-minded focus on ways to get his machines, his instruments, to translate his experiences and feelings. As a young black Londoner it was not a given that the sounds of Chicago and Detroit would find a way into the hoods of SE15. But they did. The most popular sounds in inner city London, like many urban centres, remain Hip Hop and the modern idiom of R&B. Wbeeza creates Hip Hop beats that show a deep affinity and understanding of those grooves, that can only come from being soaked in those sounds from childhood, through the school playground and on to late adolescence, when the beats and rhymes take on a more serious role in the lives young black men and women trying to find a future and a meaning to that future. Whatever you label the beats and grooves on this album, there is no doubting that they are the real deal. This is music that stands up with the best so far laid down by the giants on whose shoulders Wbeeza is standing. The tracks here span late 2006 to early 2010. The earliest track is track 7, a Latin work out that shows Wbeeza sweating over the programming. Very detailed programming at a stage in his development just before he began to play parts live and mix them live. A number of the tracks are edits of studio jams. Others are tools, some of which are in his live show and some of which never made it that far (but still might). The album is a collection of 17 tracks selected by Wbeeza and Third Ear Recordings from more than 50 tracks listened to. Wbeeza has no idea how many tracks he has produced between late 2006 and 2010, the time frame from where these seventeen come from. The album is a shade under 48 minutes and roams over a wide range of tempos and moods. "I'm just making music" he says. "I'm not trying to make slower tracks and faster tracks or Hip Hop or House. I grew up as a kid with Hip Hop, beat boxing rather than making beats, and those beats are in my blood. When I make a track I just start out with how I'm feeling or with an inspiration; an idea or a sample, and that's where I finish as well. I'm making all kinds of sounds. These are just a few tracks that sounded nice when we were compiling the album. I didn’t sit down and make this album. This is an example of the music I’ve made over the four years. An album of moments from the last four years. Available as separate tracks and as a single download mp3 for the price of one track. Yes, for the price of one track (excluding wav format).