Fans of Glyn 'Bigga' Bush will know he's likes to play with himself, as a solo artist, with different personalities as Lightning Head, Studio Don and more shades of BiggaBush than you can shake a trip-hop / dancehall / dub / funk stick at. And that doesn't stop when working with other artists or remixers like this 'Split' EP on a brand new label goes to show.
As regular readers will instantly recognise, James 'Shoes' Hayford from the remixes on 'A Differen Style' EP that came out at the very end of 2022. His version of 'Sole Sister' is a warped Augusto Pablo electronic dub that's very Steve 'On The Wire' Barker, One Deck Pete & Madtone, Wetherall, Peel, Gökmen (see below) etc: remembering the 'Freevisited' version was much more 'Mary Celeste'-Balearic.
So, after that successful collaboration, it only seemed right that BiggaBush would remix one of James' tracks. Like many others, James made a name for himself with the 'Shoes Edits' from Kraftwerk to Bohannon to Al Green and loads more; some quite obscure too! I wonder how he felt letting Bigga reverse the favour but the ambient shuffle dnb of his original 'Flowers Of Thy Womb' lends itself to a deeper dub a la Bigga style.
With both these versions on the New EP, the four track are made up with Biggabush's 'Come To The Cruch' that starts "with a smooth mid-tempo beat, a layered piano groove, and slowly building into a head-nodding chugger".. It ['Come To Crunch'] perfect is so many wasy as it "delivers layers of beefy drums, a slinky bassline, vocal samples, and strings that conclude into a beautiful summertime jam".
So as the honors are evenly shared with a track each and a remix of the otheres' each, this 'Split' is anything but acrimonious and with this much love, expecting more collaborative releases with James Hayford and BiggaBush (Ed. and others?), as well as labels Filtered Deluxe and Tru Thoughts Recordings.
Other BiggaBush info can be had HERE with the interview and the review of 'A Different Style EP' (see HERE) that includes the Hectic Extended version of 'This River' which only the other day, Kerem 'Dubmission' Gökmen described as 'iconic' on his show 28.09.25 (and featured in the 'I blame the Coal Board mix').
Artwork[Collage]: Brian Covet
Artwork[Design]: Brian Covet
Artist: James Hayford & BiggaBush
Title: Split EP
Release date:26th September, 2025
Label : Filtered Deluxe Recordings
Catalog Number: FDRV01
Format: Digital / Bandcamp
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