The Lost Record is a blog that shines a light on records that never made the move to digital (notably Spotify or Apple). At best these records have a Youtube fan upload.

Jadell – Resurrection Call

Written and produced by James Hatt

Published by: Ultimate Dilemma // Engineered by Warren Clarke // Design: She 1

Jadell (James Hatt) is a UK artist I worked with many times in the late 90s with Fresh Jive at The Faversham in Leeds. One of the more talented DJs making instrumental sample heavy hip hop (dare I say trip hop). He was an ex breaker, crate digger and quality disk jockey (known to serenade a crowd at the end of the night). He also collaborated with Nick Faber and Raw Deal on a few LP tracks (which I’ve only just learned from reading his credits). If you dig the DJ Shadow Endtroducing and early Ninja Tune you will fall easily in love with this. Catchy samples, strong basslines and one to nicely warm up the funk. The sleeve design is also noteworthy by She 1. Really nice but I can’t work out the relevance of the bones they have used (unless they just liked it).

You can check a Jadell LP here (not this track though)