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Coby Sey shares an album outtake

March 2018

The South London artist reveals an unused excerpt from his Whities 010: Transport For Lewisham

Coby Sey is a Lewisham based MC, producer, host of a monthly show on London's NTS radio, plus collaborator with Micachu and Klein, who last year released his biggest release to date, Whities 010: Transport For Lewisham. The 10" EP, released via Nic Tasker's Whities label, is inspired by the Docklands Light Railway, which was built to link areas of East and South London with the rest of the capital’s transport network. Speaking to Rob Turner in The Wire 410, Sey says the EP is about “going underground and then slowly back upwards. Digging deep, figuring out what it was that made me feel a certain way.”

This outtake aligns with these themes of movement, as it was intended to follow the track “Vestry” and lead back in to its beginning. “My intent was to create a track that starts how “Vestry” ends and ends how it starts,” he explains. “It's building on the shuffly aspects of that track and heightening tension before the release at the beginning.... Both songs were also a way for me to use sounds to address and reflect on the seemingly cyclical and revolving nature of the area I know the most.”

Wire subscribers can read Rob Turner's full article via the online archive.

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