{"product_id":"manonmars-entertainment-system","title":"Manonmars - Entertainment System","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third album from Manonmars on Young Echo Records is here.\u003cbr\u003eFollowing up the first 'Manonmars' LP and 'In Colour' the third round builds on that evergreen combo, laying down Mars' gold medal raps on high grade ambient bangers - 14 tracks in this case - all O$VMV$M produced. This time also featuring guest appearances from Dali De Saint Paul, Franco Franco, Birthmark, Bogues and Lorenzo Prati.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePressed to wax served in beautiful sleeve art with photography from Paulina Korobkiewicz, and layout by Josh Hughes-Games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026gt;\u0026gt; check the full lowdown str8 from Young Echo camp, it's all you need to know:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Manonmars’ 3rd album sees him at his most amorphous and psychedelic, at points sharper and laser focused, and at others more blurred and impressionistic than his previous records. Many of the core players remain the same, all of the production is once again handled by O$VMV$M (the duo of Neek and Amos Childs of Jabu) while Paulina Korobkiewicz (also of Young Echo) makes a return handling both the album’s cover artwork and contributing a series of diaristic field recordings and voice notes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘The project references movies, cartoons, fictional characters and video games, among other things. The album title is open to interpretation but all of these elements are forms of visual entertainment which have their own unique ability to transcend things like language barriers and cultural divides. The visual element is key because those details bridge the gap on a communicative level.’ - Manonmars \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe album blends abstract, blurred braggadocio with more immediate personal details such as on ‘Volcanic Shield’ a posse cut of sorts featuring Bristol improv luminary Dali de Saint Paul and Franco Franco (½ of cyborg rap duo Kinlaw \u0026amp; Franco Franco) - where Mars\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e recalls; \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Memories of brighter days, happy meal hit the spot \u003cbr\u003eMum was spinning vinyl playing Super Ape or Pressure Drop \u003cbr\u003eI would spend the weekend with the Turkish mandem on the block \u003cbr\u003esingle parent household, mum was studying or on the job \u003cbr\u003emoney came and went always was an on and off \u003cbr\u003emade it back from school time to see what’s on the box’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe beat fades away to leave one of Korobkiewicz’s recordings of Mars’ mum talking about her life in London in the 80s, spending her money on reggae records as an ambient chord fades in like an echo of a jungle intro – stretching out as a link between generations of UK music. \u003cbr\u003eThe production by and large is brighter and more kinetic than earlier Manonmars records – with O$VMV$M drawing on everything from modern underground rap and drill through to jazz and acid ambient passages. \u003cbr\u003eLondon is also a central character here, bustling and constantly shifting, either when bleeding in through field recordings, or as an ever-present backdrop in the lyrics; \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I’m a fusion of Tippa Irie and Topper Harley \u003cbr\u003eHit the target like the black Atari \u003cbr\u003eI dropped a tab now shit’s A Scanner Darkly \u003cbr\u003eGot the munchies, Imma yam a sarnie \u003cbr\u003ePour the Wray and Ting like man at Carni \u003cbr\u003eExit Peckham Rye and turn left, walk past Hannah Barry \u003cbr\u003eGet your (w)raps up like its January’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I've always considered London my home, despite spending some time in the South West of England too. My mum had been living in London for 25 years (...) That was a pretty big deal in some ways because it removed us from multicultural society during the period which overlapped with my teenage years. (...) I never got used to how quiet it was in the countryside (...) Bristol was the closest city to where we lived and it was through travelling there and making connections that I became involved in making music and playing gigs.’ - Manonmars \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMars’ practice as a painter (under his given name Jack Martyn Richardson) and photographer also loom heavy over the album, he cites Paul Verhoeven, Abdul Mati Klariwein and H.R Giger as influences – as well as Miles Davis, Drakeo the Ruler and DJ Rashad. \u003cbr\u003eAs with much of Richardson’s work the raps at times feel blurred to a point of almost inscrutability, creating a distance between the audience and himself. A process that ties into his visual work and the way he experiences the world as mainly abstract colour without his glasses. He explores this further in an ongoing visual collaboration with Korobkiewicz, ‘Fun and Games’ which serves as a visual archive of one of London's largest and oldest travelling fairgrounds. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘I was diagnosed with very severe short-sightedness at the age of seven. I remember my early formative years as visually blurred. 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