Wiley - 100% Publishing
(CD/2xLP/Download) Big Dada BDCD180/BD180/BDDNL180, 2011-06-20

Big Dada are very pleased to confirm that we'll be releasing another album by the brilliant, mercurial Wiley. The title, 100% Publishing, was chosen to reflect the fact that for the first time ever, the album is produced and vocalled entirely by Wiley himself. The result is his masterpiece; the freewheeling, uncompromising body of work he's always strived to create. By turns ebullient, reflective and fiery, the lyrics are always masterful, and represent the most cohesively themed Wiley album to date. The first single, Numbers in Action, sees Wiley moving the grime template forward once again, refreshing the genre with an entirely new take. Remixes come from Sticky and Toddla T, and the single is released May 16th. The full album follows on July 4th.

Bang On! - Got It
(Digital Single) Big Dada BDDNL178, 2010-06-20

The twenty year old scally genius Bang On! returns on a hard hip hop beat courtesy of the appropriately-named Liverpool production hermit Reklews. Reminiscent of classic, bass-heavy hip hop at its very best (think "Shook Ones"), Bang On! uses Got It to spray a series of increasingly surreal and stinky barbs at an "X Factor" generation who think they're something special without having any real idea what that might mean. Funny, scabrous and rude, Bang On! proves that the off-kilter imagery, humour and good-natured aggression he showcased on Hands High was no fluke.

Offshore - Pacer EP
(12"/Promo CD/Download) Big Dada BD185/BDCD185P/BDDNL185, 2011-07-18

Aberdonian-in-London Ewan Robertson aka Offshore returns with the third of his "EP" series, his second for Big Dada, and it's another massive stride forward for this multi-talented producer. The EP begins with title-track Pacer, supple and dancefloor friendly but with enough of Offshore's trademark melancholic melody to satisfy the most emotional of listeners. Pepper is a brutal bass number which pushes his sonic palette into new territory. Pearls & Butlers with guest Cienfuegos is a deconstructed ballad with a more 'live' feel than Robertson's previous work. Skit-length "Mintlaw" once again sees Robertson pushing the sonics further than in the past, while "East Coast Capital Connect" offers a journey back to the frozen North of his last EP, the complexity and sharpness of the execution showing how quickly Offshore is still improving. Already a favourite amongst electronic music aficionados, Pacer shows how widely Robertson is setting his sights. With another EP to follow later in the year and an album in early 2012, Offshore is ready to come in from the cold.

Elan Tamara - Organ EP
(12"/Download) Big Dada BD182/BDDNL182, 2011-06-06

Everyone witters on about the latest female singer-songwriter to plop off the major label production line but the truth is this: most of them sound the same. Weak re-treads of classic soul or classic folk or classic this or that. As a whole, people are more interested in how they look than whether they have anything to say, or any way to say it. Please welcome, then, Elan Tamara, who genuinely sounds like no one else. Fascinated by Balinese Gamelan and Steve Reich, she makes music as uncategorisable, as heartfelt and beautifully otherworldly as anything you're likely to hear. Over two EPs she has carved out a space so unique and unclassifiable that people have fallen back on namechecking other female artists with a distinctive aesthetic and outlook - Kate Bush, Bjork, Joanna Newsom and their ilk. Needless to say, she doesn't sound like them, either. Her third EP, her first with Big Dada, shows Tamara developing her songwriting craft to new heights. With a voice that can be smooth and calming or raging and hurt, Tamara pulls long vocal lines and next level harmonies over the syncopated minimalism of her piano playing. This base is augmented by the playing of her band. The whole is then stretched and moulded into new shapes by up-and-coming producer Kwes (DELS, The Invisible, The XX, and now of Warp Records). The result is some of the most exciting, individual music around, music which deserves and rewards repeated listens and signals the arrival of a major new talent. Listen...

Wiley - Numbers In Action
(12"/Download) Big Dada BD181/BDDNL181, 2011-05-16

For the first time in his hyperactive career, Wiley returns to a label and the results are dynamite. Numbers In Action sees one of the UK's greatest producers and MCs doing what he does best - hooking up a minimalist masterpiece of a beat and then spitting his bars over it with the insouciance and sheer top-of-the-dome randomness and magnificence which only this most maverick of artists can muster. Assured and brilliant, Numbers.. sounds like the Godfather of Grime making Old Skool Hip Hop for all tomorrow's parties. And it's funny, too. Remix duties are led out by Sticky, who Wiley simple describes as "the don". Sticky takes the swing of the original rhythm and builds rising keyboard lines on top in an oblique nod to 99 Problems. Toddska (Toddla T and Roska) break everything down into their constiuent parts and plot out the line between Baltimore House and Sheffield Bleep. Grime up ‘n' comer Z Dot, on the other hand, takes the tune back to its roots in the music Wiley pioneered. The album 100% Publishing is out 4th July.

DELS - GOB
(CD/2xLP/Download) Big Dada BD179/BDCD179/BDDNL179 , 2011-05-02

Kieren Dickins aka DELS is a new type of rapper (which is another way of saying that he’s more than just a rapper). Applying the kind of attention to detail, micro-management and macro-vision which Jay-Z used to build a business empire, DELS makes art. Popular art mind you, but art all the same, an album of emotional peaks, musical innovation and surreal, brilliant lyrics, held together by such a unique, such a strong vision that it sounds almost silly to suggest it’s just a debut. Already causing a stir with the tasters Shapeshift and Trumpalump (and the videos he masterminded for them), everything is now ready to show how these pieces fit into the bigger picture…

DELS - GOB
(12"/Download) Big Dada BD177/BDDNL177, 2011-04-25

Kieren Dickins aka DELS returns with the final single before the launch of his debut album, the track from which his long player takes its name, GOB. With music from production wunderkind Kwes (known for his own releases on Young Turks plus production work with The Invisible and The XX) the track shows Dickins, angry, battered, but ultimately hopeful, rising up through all the shit of the world determined to triumph, succumbing neither to the nonsense around him or his own quest for perfection, gradually lifted aloft on a monster of a bassline. Like a cross between Nine Inch Nails, TV On The Radio and Massive Attack it's a standout moment for British rap and a bold statement of intent. The single will be available on 18th April with remixes by the legendary Dave Sitek (TV & The Radio/Maximum Balloon) & Untold.

Paris Suit Yourself - Sometimes
(Digital single) Big Dada BDDNL176, 2011-04-04

Paris Suit Yourself return with the third single from their explosive, divisive debut album, My Main Shitstain. Sometimes represents possibly the closest the quartet will ever come to a 'straight up' pop single - elements of the Kinks slam up against sixties Motown (though maybe not as straightforwardly as that might make it sound!), Luvinsky Atche drops undertstated, high, clean, beautiful vocals, while Victor Tricard rips through a viciously tuneful guitar solo. It's all over almost before it's started, leaving you wanting a little more. Before you hit rewind, there's more to come. Micachu brings her own brand of speaker-blowing madness to the original on her M.A.T.H.E.S. remix, the kind of demented electronic stomp which has established her as one of the few truly original musicians working in London. M.E.S.H. (aka James Whipple) reconfigures the original into a bass-heavy, technoid-dub workout, all phasing pads and fast dancehall rhythms. Victor Tricard, meanwhile, puts down his guitar and takes the tune straight to the nearest rave, building from ambient malice to full on four-to-the-floor freakout (and in the process proving that this is not a band who take themselves too seriously, but just seriously enough).

Paris Suit Yourself - My Main Shitstain
(LP/CD/Download) Big Dada BD175/BDCD175/BDDNL175, 2011-02-14

What do you want from the ideal debut album? That it excites you, intrigues you, sometimes confuses you? That it takes risks, is hard to place in terms of the records you already know, that it's short and sharp and bursting with energy and ideas and even hooks? That it makes you laugh, or cry, or has your jaw occasionally scraping along the floor? That it sets out its stall with utter confidence and no reference to what's going on around it? That it's delivered with total conviction? That it fits into no pre-defined "trend" or "scene" and instead creates its own space by force of will? If even a few of those are what you're looking for then My Main Shitstain by Paris Suit Yourself could just be your new favourite record.

Dels - Trumpalump
(12"/Download) Big Dada BD168/BDDNL168, 2010-11-29

The second single from his forthcoming debut album finds Kieren Dickins aka DELS collaborating once again with Hot Chip's Joe Goddard on a tune which throws all the rules about the correct structuring of a classic pop song out of the window, drags them back in through the backdoor and makes of them one of the most beautiful, funny and compelling rap records you've heard in a good old while. The record begins with DELS dropping a collage of thoughts and images over Goddard's chugging, squelching beat. With the second verse, the music changes, a more reflective, melancholy feel coming in as DELS rap resolves into the theme of dreams within dreams, the lyrics still funny, but more thoughtful and just as concrete in terms of the images they generate. Just when you think it can't get any better, a steel drum starts syncopating the beat and the tune is finished by Goddard's beautiful, understated chorus. Surprising, innovative and just plain different, you'll be reaching for rewind before you know it. We hope so, anyway…