Ron Trent - Manifesto - Future Vision

Taking a proud stance loaded with an explicit message, Ron Trent truly excels himself as a deep house great with an innate understanding of how to channel his African roots into contemporary music. The A side of Manifesto features the "Bewe Effect" mix, which first reveals Trent's diatribe on what he stands for, while the drums snake and snap underneath in a tracky but utterly engrossing groove of tribal house. The original mix of "Manifesto" meanwhile smooths out those percussive edges with a more delicate arrangement of bongos and congas intertwining with winsome keys of a perfectly balanced nature. Aybee steps up for his own "Blakspace Federation" version that reaches to a more dubby construction with focused, pumping drums and simmering melodies that provides an equally apt vessel to Trent's musings.