In the wake of their new album Expansions Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band drop another must have two-sider. On the A side they take on the J DIlla produced Slum Village club banger "Raise It Up" and give it the BRSB treatment. SV fans will lose their shit when this comes on. Heads will be nodding from the first beat of the opening drum break and when they start playing the top line on the pans it's a wrap. Now that they have your attention they take the tune and expand on it changing the arrangement and lacing it with brass and guitar parts that keep pushing the tune to higher and higher levels of energy. The B finds BRSB taking on the infamous Galt MacDermot tune "Space". Made famous in the hip hop world when it was sampled for Busta Rhyme's classic ... read more