Groove Armada - Get Down / Soundboy Rock

But in its place came something far better: a focused collection of 15 songs each flowing into the next like the best kind of homemade mix-tape. In its place came Soundboy Rock.

Initially they worked separately on the tunes for their fifth studio album - Cato in Spain, in the studio he's dubbed The Sweatbox, Findlay in the space he calls The Tom Tom Club in the basement of his house in Hackney. Musical files were emailed back and forth, the ideas fairly flying out of the pair; 19 tracks, mostly instrumentals, were quickly racked up.

Last August Cato went to New York to record contributions from a dreamteam of rappers and vocalists. Soul queen Angie Stone sat at the piano with the Groove Armada man, chain-smoking and exhaling lyrics over the punchy rhythms of Feel The Same As You. Later, once Cato was back in Europe, Rhymefest - signed to Mark Ronson's label - would add whipsmart hip hop block-party vibes to the pneumatic funk of The Girls Say.
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