{"id":1222,"date":"2008-03-03T00:05:55","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T23:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1222"},"modified":"2008-03-03T00:05:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T23:05:55","slug":"england-my-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/england-my-england\/","title":{"rendered":"England, My England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/englandstory.jpg\" alt=\"An England Story - Soul Jazz\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/?p=1212#comment-2432\">The unintentionally hilarious comment below from a neo-nazi <\/a>has reminded me that I haven&#8217;t mentioned this essential new release from Soul Jazz.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been following this blog and the mixes I&#8217;ve done for the last few years, you&#8217;ll know that I think the history of UK MC culture has been massively under-exposed &#8211; this is fantastic start to redressing that error.<\/p>\n<p>The album is compiled by the comrades over at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theheatwave.co.uk\/blog\/\">The Heatwave<\/a> and is based on their excellent <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theheatwave.co.uk\/music\/item\/anenglandstory\/\">blogariddims mix<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Full review to follow in the next issue of <em>The Wire<\/em>, but do yourself and favour and grab your copy now &#8211; you won&#8217;t regret it. If there is a release more important than this in 2008 I will be very surprised.<\/p>\n<p>The album also functions as a beautiful antidote to the socially constructed concept of &#8220;whiteness&#8221; that my correspondent seems so keen on.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.souljazzrecords.co.uk\/releases\/?id=11133\">Full tracklist and samples at the Soul Jazz site.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theheatwave.co.uk\/about\/cutting\/timeoutfeb08\/\">Time Out feature.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The unintentionally hilarious comment below from a neo-nazi has reminded me that I haven&#8217;t mentioned this essential new release from Soul Jazz. If you&#8217;ve been following this blog and the mixes I&#8217;ve done for the last few years, you&#8217;ll know that I think the history of UK MC culture has been massively under-exposed &#8211; this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/england-my-england\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;England, My England&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grime","category-music-reviews","category-reggae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncarved.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}