Cool Bear: Seb Rochford Mix

Seb Rochford gets around a bit. Not content with drumming with jazz types Acoustic Ladyland and Polar Bar [and the not so jazzy Babyshambles] he's turned his dexterous fingers to mixing. Celebrating his varied influences this half an hour mixtape ties classical strings with beatboxing, dub breaks and fancy flourishes, full throttle flows with chilled out beats.

Spot the Buraka Som Sistema, Mos Def, Harmonic 313 and Lightning Bolt in amongst the underground hip hop and pop vocals.

Here's the tracklisting

1. Dj Maja / Cabide DJ - Montagem Da Opera
2. Food For Animals - Tween My Lips
3. Tyshawn Sorey - Awakening
4. Cooly G - Dis Boy Pt 4
5. Alix Perez - The Cut Deepens
6. T Boost & Gunna D - Freestyle
7. Mos Def - Revelations
8. C. Gritz - Someone To Love
9. Zed-U - Chief
10. Ciara (feat. Missy Elliott) - Work
11. Buraka Som Sistema - Kalemba (Wegue Wegue)
12. Giggs (feat. Gunna D) - We Do This All Day
13. Harmonic 313 - No Way Out
14. Lightning Bolt - Rain On Lake I'm Swimming In
15. The Noisettes - Atticus

Seb tours with Polar Bear this month in support of new record 'Peepers', released next week on the Leaf Label

Wed 24 Feb - The Junction, Cambridge
Tue 2 Mar - The Garage, London
Fri 26 Mar - The Firestation, Windsor
Mon 3 May - Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham
Thu 13 May - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham
Sat 3 Jul - Mostly Jazz Festival, Birmingham
Sun 29 Aug - Aeon Festival, Devon

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