Om Unit Threads

Threads is the debut album from London producer
Om Unit, to be released on Civil Music in November
2013.
While this is a debut full length for Om Unit, real
name Jim Coles, it is in fact the producer’s fourth
studio album, following from work in the 2000s
under the name 2tall. Having reset the clock on his
artistic output in 2010, Coles has spent the past
three years refining a unique sound as Om Unit via
collaborations with Machinedrum on Planet Mu,
releases on Goldie’s Metalheadz, dBridge’s Exit
Records and Civil Music, his own Cosmic Bridge
label and the short-lived Phillip D. Kick alias that
fleshed out the links between Chicago’s footwork,
jungle and slow/fast. The confluence of all this work
takes full flight on Threads.
Across its fifteen tracks Threads articulates Om
Unit’s musical journey from his beginnings to the
present. It references his hip hop background, in the
swung out, hypnotic headnod of ‘Wall of Light’ and
the positive message of ‘Just Sayin’’, a collaboration
with the mysterious Gone The Hero, (who will be
stepping out of the shadows on Jneiro Jarel’s Label
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