His trademark analogue jerk-beat first pricked up ears over a decade ago via remixes for labels Mantis Recordings and Bob Sinclars Yellow Productions. Now Clyde finally drops his debut album Hyper Reality. Clyde has teamed up with San Francisco based Capitol A (who has worked with The Roots, King Britt, Jazzanova, Wahoo, Mark de Clive-Lowe and many more) on Serve It Up!, a single that, probably, set the revival of the revival of hip-house in motion. Youll find it here in all its original glor... Read more >>

His trademark analogue jerk-beat first pricked up ears over a decade ago via remixes for labels Mantis Recordings and Bob Sinclars Yellow Productions. Now Clyde finally drops his debut album Hyper Reality. Clyde has teamed up with San Francisco based Capitol A (who has worked with The Roots, King Britt, Jazzanova, Wahoo, Mark de Clive-Lowe and many more) on Serve It Up!, a single that, probably, set the revival of the revival of hip-house in motion. Youll find it here in all its original glory as the album opener. Cap lays down the lyrics two more times with the swaggering Broken Slang and Gedaroom. On the latter, he articulates tales of - and for want of a better term - a night on the pull. MOBO winning emcee Phoebe One speaks up for London, by not only bouncing on Gedaroom, but delivering one of her finest ever tracks with the rugged Neva That. Nebraska is probably never going to be a state at the forefront of hip-hop culture, but its keyed a scratch on the door of the Escalade with Clydes discovery of Omahas Juse, in whom hes found a suitably cynical cohort. Million Souls Sold gives a clue in the title to its content, while Lady Cadava is possibly the oddest centrepiece to an album since Kool Keith had a particularly strange day. Its not all rhyming and reasoning though. Jane Hamilton (Magic Number, Slope) delivers some sweet boogie soul with her vocals on Read My Mind, and Clyde himself doesnt shy away from vocal duties on the album. Although he claims its currently strictly from within the four walls of the studio, as hes not yet mastered the art of being drunk enough to sing in front of an audience, yet sober enough to be any good at it! Whatever he thinks, he does a pretty good job in front of a less public mic with a clutch of slow jams for the ladies, and one current favourite in swinging mainland Europe, and erm, Manchester is Roll Of The Beast. Hyper Reality is a labour of long term obsession at a (political) correctional facility disco.