From – Y.O.U

“Originally recorded in the mid 90’s these mellow instrumental hip hop jams become a dreamy set with snips of brass, distant vocals, soft pulses and deep rumbles. Remarkable” – Electronic Sound

“This month i’ve been immersed in a splurge of brilliant music released by Trevor Jackson, The trippy down tempo grooves of ‘From’ Sounds like a gauzy, bucolic take on Boards of Canada” – Q Magazine

“For Underdog fan’s, Jacksons softer side, beautifully radiant, strung out instrumentals, kissed with haunted wonder throughout, unafraid of beatless bizarreness” – The Wire

“Blissful melodies from audio and visual artist FROM aka Trevor Jackson” – Mixmag

“Muted horns. Orchestral strings. Bassoons & tinkling ivories. Tubular bell chimes. Harps. Kalimba ghosts, & the spectres of Easy – Listening harmonies whispering way down in the mix. Here are snapshots of the sound of a mid-to-late `90s UK Hip Hop scene.” – Ban Ton Ton

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Y.O.U is a blissfully emotive album of tripped out ambient hip hop instrumentals by FROM, written and recorded in the mid 90’s under Trevor Jacksons infamous production persona the Underdog .Originally planned as a vocally led song based project that should of surfaced between his production for the Brotherhood’s legendary British Hip Hop ‘Elementalz album’ (1996) and his highly acclaimed debut Playgroup release (2001), due to multiple reasons it’s not seen the light of day until now.

The album consists of 11 tracks. Mostly beatless, dreamlike synth lines, ambient melodies, blissful guitars and soft fractured vocals draw you into a hallucinatory lucid 12bit world. Drawing on Jacksons progressive & jazz rock influences as well as psychedelia & early electronics and the album closes with ‘Belladonna’ a piano sampled homage to the east coast golden age hip hop pioneers.

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