IG Culture - Soulful Shanghai

IG Culture - Soulful Shanghai

Cover Artwork

One of the most underrated cats in the music world to has to be IG Culture. I sometimes think he's not too unhappy with that status, but there were times when I was worried he might have given up music to focus on making videos. As of today, we all know that's not the case, as Kindred Spirits announced his new longplayer (The Many Districts Of) Soulful Shanghai.

Among the many collaborators are a couple of familiar faces. Bilal Salaam was already featured on Zen Badizm (hey, that's my first post ever!) and Akwasi Mensah made his mark on records such as Kaidi Tatham's Feed the Cat and several of Dego‘s projects. There are plenty more names listed and frankly speaking I don't know any of them. The snippets however sound most promising, as versatile as IG's twenty years of making music.01. Can't Believe It feat. ID4
02. Truth feat. John Robinson
03. Core Exit feat. Bilal Salaam
04. Talkin' Bout Mine
05. Black Rennaissance feat. Akwasi Mensah
06. Futures Back feat. K Banger
07. Take It There feat. K Banger
08. The (blessed) Mizells feat. Akwasi Mensah
09. Half Black Half Japanese feat. John Robinson
10. Bluff and Fold (Gamble and Bluf)
11. Catalog Pieces feat. John Robinson
12. The Revolution Will Not Be Tell Lie Vise
13. Do The Math feat. ID 4 Windz
14. A Tangible Dream feat. Bilal Salaam
15. Outsider (the lite) feat. Eagle Nebula
16. Whats Happening feat. K Banger
17. The Kikanju Baku Peace Arkestra

I'm very excited about this album, it's too good to see IG Culture back at what he's best at. What I couldn't track down is the exact release date. According to HMV Japan, Soulful Shanghai will be out in April. The guys of Machine, who are once again responsible for the cover-art, confirm it loosely with a release in the first quarter of 2012. In any case you can place your pre-order today directly on the Kindred Spirits website!

May 16, 2012 The album is out now on LP and limited to 1,000 copies, the CD is still a pre-order item

May 23, 2012 Also available on iTunes

Published on February 27, 2012