Dutch producer Mason and NYC-born hip-hop artist Afrika “Baby Bam” have bumped firsts for a new single, ‘The Wicked’. With Mason’s beats and Afrika's flow, the track is aiming to be popular for this within both musical genres.
Rounding off the year Toolroom head honcho, Mark Knight, steps up to deliver the latest instalment of his ‘Bullets’ series, with Vol. 5. Picking up where Vol. 4 left off, the release features new collaborations with two of Mark’s current favourite DJ/producers, Mason & James Hurr.
Mason takes his ‘tongue in cheek attitude’ to music and runs with it in his new video for ‘Givin’ Up.’ In the video, he plays a parody of himself: a producer under pressure to make another big record while being stuck in lockdown. He’s seen reminiscing about previous live gigs and going about a very mundane life while trying to motivate himself to make a big record - a follow up to 2007’s ‘Exceeder’.
DJ/producer Mason drops ‘Givin’ Up’, a disco-house hybrid, on his own Animal Language imprint. Equal parts groove, melody and eccentricity, he has avoided jumping on electronic music bandwagons and with a palette borrowed from formative years immersed in hip-hop, house, electro, funk and disco there are apparently no rules to his musical style.