The Irish producer Mick Donohue is to release a new album Scenes, Journeys & Colors on Rudimentary Records on March 28, 2025.
After releases with inspirations drawn from tropical and dub sounds, crate-digging and comics in Brazil and a live collaboration on a dance show with Emma Martin, t-woc is set to release his second album on Rudimentary, after 2016’s Sentinelas.
Here’s the background:
The bones of the album was made during the ‘quiet time’ starting with a track that didn’t make the cut on this release but had provided the blueprint to the project titled ‘Street Soul Osaka’.
It was a recent chance encounter with a lone boombox playing actual street soul on a pavement in Osaka that it became clear the project needed to be released and the album was completed in Dublin in 2024.
This album is crafted through a blend of samples, live instrumentation, field recordings and studio experimentation. The tracks built on drum machines and live percussive elements are interspersed with minimal ambient pieces, there’s a pronounced dub undercurrent as always, and a tip of the hat to the cosmos.
There are also some vocoders and a fair dose of weirdness.
You can hear five tracks from the record on Bandcamp.
The album won’t be available on Spotify but some other streaming sites.
Niall Byrne is the founder of the most-influential Irish music site Nialler9, where he has been writing about music since 2005 . He is the co-host of the Nialler9 Podcast and has written for the Irish Times, Irish Independent, Cara Magazine, Sunday Times, Totally Dublin, Red Bull and more. Niall is a DJ, founder of Lumo Club, club promoter, event curator and producer of gigs, listening parties & events in Dublin.
