Michael J. Blood and his pal Samizdat come like Manchester’s answer to KDJ x Louie Baloue, gouching on the hearth with a suite of peat-smoked beatdown, crooked electro-soul and soft pr0n score smuts on their sick second collaborative album – big tip if yr into Madteo, Moodymann, Autre Ne Veut!

In a groggy, bandy-legged pursuit of vibes felt on 2023’s cult side ‘Disenfranchised Refuseniks’, Michael J. Blood and Samizdat share equal billing on a 100% killer session of triple distilled US soul, jazz and house inspirations filtered thru a Manchester lens. It’s some of the closest we’ve heard to Kenny Dixon Jr. aka Moodymann beyond his Mahogani Music and s/t labels, but also with a watermark of identity that places it in a shared microcosm with that mad Louie Baloue discovery on Light in the Attic or Ajukaja & Mart Avi’s Estonian strains or Madteo’s most whacked out and hazed productions, even giving flashbacks to Autre Ne Veut’s beloved debut. Basically it’s simply all gravy on the shagpile.

Michael J. Blood x Samizdat: LP2 is out now at boomkat.com