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Mr. Scruff

Sweet Smoke

Label: Ninja Tune Release Date: 09/12/2002

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gdobson by Gareth Dobson December 12th, 2002

Can you imagine what its like inside the world of Mr Scruff?

Multicoloured bongs, wacky headgear and a giant, and hugely impressive record collection. Because you see, if you look past the 'amusing' presentation of both the man and his records, you will find a damn fine musician making similarly great tunes.

'Sweet Smoke' is a splendidly insistent slice of electrojazz, with stabs of warped keyboards lunging against a sweetly dubby baseline and carousing with snippet of vocal cheer. Think a headphone-loving freeform Daft Punk canoodling with Lemon Jelly. A perfect end-of-year tune to spin out to.

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