For the first release of 2025, it’s with great pleasure that Lazy Days welcomes an old friend, French & Polish (ex-Londoner and now Cape Town based) producer Simbad (aka SMBD). His list of collaborators reads like a “who’s who” of the best in the business: Coldcut, Ben Westbeech, Quantic, Fred P, Deetron, Karizma, Atjazz, Jose James, and the list goes on. Simbad has been a close collaborator of Gilles Peterson and his label Brownswood. Gilles considers him to be one of his favorite DJs and made him a resident at his Worldwide Festival.
Prolific and eclectic, his musical output as a producer includes Hip Hop (Roots Manuva), Dubstep (Mala), Brazilian (Seu Jorge), Afro Beat (Seun Kuti), Techno (Fred P, Jeff Mills), Broken Beat (Bugz In The Attic, Afronaut) and of course all things House (Local Talk, Atjazz Record Company, Defected, and BBE).
The project came together during Fred Everything’s last tour in South Africa when he asked Simbad if he had any tracks for the label. The next day, a gigantic folder of unreleased music from Simbad’s vault arrived in his inbox that included many rough ideas written between 2012 and 2016.
The main track, ‘Dream On,’ features Kira on vocals, a relatively well-known hip-hop sample, and an infectious bass line. It comes with its instrumental version also. ‘Facing Our Future’ is a beautiful arpeggiated ambient analog piece, and ‘Sun Snack’ is one of the deepest house tunes you’ve heard in a long time.
On remix duty, the label welcomes Giom, another old friend of the label. After a house hiatus of a few years, concentrating on his band PREP, Giom is back in the studio. His interpretation of ‘Dream On’ is like he never went away, deep and quirky.
You can now listen to the full premiere of Giom’s ‘Dream On’ remix, exclusively on When We Dip. Enjoy!
Release Date: January 31st, 2025. Buy Here
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