Released February 19th on 679 Recordings1. No Good
2. No Good (Brucker Remix)
3. No Good (Chase & Status remix)
4. Where Ya From? (Feat JME and Skepta)
‘monstrously funky, funny and violent retooling of the Prodigy rave hit’ – Q ‘The best British debut of the year’ – Time OutPlan B created one of the most brutally raw albums of 2006 with the Mercury-nominated ‘Who Needs Actions When You Got Words’ released last June. Now the first limited release from Plan B ‘No Good’, the one with the award winning ‘Sledgehammer’-esque video that ingeniously transformed a mind-numbing three-day shoot into a true work of stop-start animation art and heralded the arrival of a new lyrical genius, is released properly with a clutch of suitably remarkable remixes. Stepping into the breach is Brucker aka Dave Taylor aka Switch, but in more serious hip hop guise than with his usual chest-collapsingly heavy house trickery. It literally zips out of your speakerbox, its skittering fuzziness bringing even more emphasis to Ben’s spiky lyrical onslaught.

The Chase and Status remix is one of the finest reworkings you are likely to hear around, one of those rare occasions when a remixer captures the very essence of the original and catapults it into a wholly new realm - in this case some seriously twisted and firing junglism which just happens to suit the vocals to a tee.

Finally ‘Where Ya From’ is given a facelift with new verses from the king of Myspace JME, the underground talent currently burning brightest for the UK, and Boy Better Know crew’s Skepta.

With a recent set of dates with The Roots here in the UK winning over yet more hip hop fans seeing something utterly captivating and new, Plan B embarks on a full tour in ’07:

January
Tue 30th, Preston – 53 Degrees Wed 31st, Birmingham – Academy 2

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