1. No Love

2. Seat Yourself (Miami Mix)

3. Double Drat

4. Nobody's Dancing

5. Things We Do

6. Check It (Remix)

7. Get U High

8. Colossal Insight (Jammer Remix And Revox)

9. Mean Street

10. Pep My Game

11. This World Is Mine (Plan B Studio Version)

12. Grown Man

Roots Manuva - Alternately Deep

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When Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva began work on the album which was to become “Awfully Deep,” he never expected to make the best part of thirty tracks. But that’s how it worked out. Furthermore, he had insisted that he didn’t want his new record to be more than twelve or thirteen tracks long.

The solution? A year on from releasing one of the best and most critically-acclaimed albums of 2005, Big Dada/Banana Klan are putting out a mid-price collection of the best of these additional tracks. Some have been used as downloads or B sides or exclusives, some have never been released before, but this is the best way to be sure of having them all. Plus, it turns out, Roots Manuva always makes not just good tracks, but remarkably good albums…

“Alternately Deep” is the same record as “Awfully Deep” transported to an alternate universe. Much more raw and stripped down, many of the underlying themes are the same, but dealt with in different ways. Collaborators here are grime producer Jammer, Lotek, Colossus, Easy Access Orchestra and live vocal partner Ricky Ranking, but, as ever, the record is definitively the work of Roots Manuva, a fine addition to a remarkable body of releases.

Press for Awfully Deep:

‘If there was any justice in the world, Roots Manuva would be bigger than the Beatles.’ – NME

‘The most original voice of his generation… his best album yet.’ – Q

‘A contender for album of the year.’- The Independent

‘Smith’s best, most satisfying album to date.’ – Mojo

‘A freshly-minted classic…’ – The Guardian

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