Soundtrack

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Us3

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
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Tracks

What Have We Done?; Resist The Rat Race; Dance Of The Five Fevers; Footsteps In The Dark; Skin On Skin; Cosmic Dance; Long Ride Home; Frustration; One Night Stand; Save Me; You Can't Stop Me; Narco.

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Album Description

After twelve years away, legendary jazz and hip-hop fusion pioneers Us3 return with ��Soundtrack��, their long-awaited 10th studio album. Known worldwide for their groundbreaking 1993 hit ��Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)�� and their fearless hybrid of sampled beats and live musicianship, Us3��s new album isn��t a comeback��it��s a bold continuation. For the first time in their career, founder and producer Geoff Wilkinson has crafted a fully instrumental album. Yet despite the absence of lyrics, ��Soundtrack�� speaks volumes��offering a raw, cinematic exploration of memory, loss, social reckoning, and artistic rebirth. ��Soundtrack�� features the urgent, socially-charged single ��Resist The Rat Race�� (praised by The New York Times as ��a swaggering alliance of human and machine��), the percussive debut single ��What Have We Done?�� (described by Goldmine Magazine as having ��jazzy-riffed undertones�� and ��an emotive sound��), and the moody, cinematic ��Footsteps in the Dark.�� Together, the tracks form a body of work that feels both intensely personal and globally resonant. Blending live instrumentation, trap drums, and a sweeping 18-piece horn section, Wilkinson cites inspiration from Gil Evans�� orchestrations for Miles Davis in the late 50s and early 60s. The... result is a kaleidoscope of sound that plays less like a traditional album and more like a movie score for the present moment. The story of ��Soundtrack�� is as much about survival as it is about music. After decades of breaking boundaries and carrying the torch for jazz-hip hop fusion, Wilkinson stepped back from the industry due to health challenges and burnout. More than ten years later, he returns with clarity, ambition, and a recharged creative vision. �� Geoff Wilkinson��s new vision for Us3 and "Soundtrack" splits the difference between filmic technicolor-inspired worlds, soulful jazz melodicism and the crispness of trap-hop rhythm��. Jazz Times Throughout the 1990s, Us3 dominated global airwaves, influencing a generation with their genre-bending sound��echoing everywhere from London jazz clubs to Tokyo record stores. With ��Soundtrack��, Wilkinson doesn��t seek to relive that past but to reimagine what jazz and hip-hop can mean in 2025.?

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