Mr Scruff Trouser Jazz (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

• 1. Here We Go
• 2. Sweet Smoke
• 3. Come Alive
• 4. Shrimp
• 5. Vibrate
• 6. Ug
• 7. Shelf Wobbler
• 8. Valley Of The Sausages
• 9. Champion Nibble
• 10. Come On Grandad
• 11. Beyond
• 12. Giffin
• 13. Ahoy There!

Many happy returns to Mr Scruff's third and most celebrated album, Trouser Jazz, which turned 20 at the tail end of 2022. To mark the occasion, the long-serving, Stockport-born DJ/producer has reissued it on blue and red vinyl and reworked the artwork a bit. It remains a genuinely kaleidoscopic, all-action musical treat that moves in a myriad of different directions, blending quirky and unlikely samples with good grooves, oodles of musicality and plenty of aural colour. Highlights include the jaunty, solo-laden breakbeat bounce of 'Sweetsmoke', the up-tempo soul-jazz of Seaming To collaboration 'Beyond', the 21st century jazz-funk of 'Shrimp', the jazz-flecked hip-hop of 'Shelf Wobbler', the horn-heavy nu-jazz excellence of 'Champion Nibble', and the sample-laden silliness of 'Ahoy There'.