Paul White - Honey Cats

It's the sad truth that there aren't many producers taking risks. Once a certain level of success has been reached, innovation often falls by the wayside. But let's not be unfair towards the struggling artist, the truth is also that we all love our comfort zones, don't we? Rather than complaining we should give an extra-praise those artists who go out and try something new. Take acclaimed beat-maker Paul White for instance. Following a streak of exciting records within the hip hop domain, he reached a new level of success through his collaborations with Guilty Simpson and more recently Danny Brown. Excitingly, this is where the London-based producer is trying out something else, for it seems his new album on R&S Records could be his take on the blues. The track you can hear above is a first taster from this record and it's Paul himself taking over the mic this time, sounding somewhere between Damo Suzuki and Thom Yorke. Oh my, who would have expected this?

Titled “Shaker Notes”, the new album will be out on September 29, 2014.

(via Abeano)