When Rodney Smith aka Roots Manuva began work on the album that was to become “Awfully Deep,” he never expected to make the best part of 30 tracks. But that’s how it worked out. Furthermore, he had insisted that he didn’t want his new record to be more than twelve or thirteen tracks long.
The solution? A year on from releasing one of the best and most critically acclaimed albums of 2005, Roots Manuva are putting out a mid-price collection of the best of these additional tracks. Some have been used as downloads or B-sides or exclusives, some have never been released before, but this is the best way to be sure of having them all. Plus, it turns out, Roots Manuva always makes not just good tracks, but remarkably good albums…

Collaborators here are grime producer Jammer, Lotek, Colossus, Easy Access Orchestra and live vocal partner Ricky Ranking, but, as ever, the record is defi nitively the work of Roots Manuva, a fine addition to a remarkable body of releases.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. No Love
2. Seat Yourself (Miami Mix)
3. Double Drat
4. Nobody's Dancing
5. Things We Do
6. Check It (remix)
7. Get U High
8. Colossal Insight (Jammer Remix & Revox)
9. Mean Street
10. Pep My Game
11. This World Is Mine (Plan B Studio Version)
12. Grown Man