Birmingham based producer Sam Redmore crosses the Atlantic and ropes in veteran Canadian rapper Abdominal for a beat heavy rumination on the state of the world.

Hot on the heels of Sam’s sophomore album Modulate (out now via Jalapeño Records) comes ‘Mother Earth’, an impossible to ignore slice of planet–conscious, NOLA flavoured orchestral hip hop that uses the music and lyrics to forcibly illustrate the message in the song.

Sam says.. “I knew before starting work on Mother Earth that I wanted to make a track that built in tempo throughout. The Climate Emergency is something that I have become increasingly concerned about in recent times, and the idea from the beginning was that the increasing tempo would represent soaring temperatures, sea level rises and a surge in the frequency of natural disasters. My aim was to create something that ended almost uncomfortably fast, giving the impression it was spiralling out of control."

Over to Abdominal... “I already had a relationship with Sam based on some shows he had promoted for me back in the day. So when he approached me about a potential collaboration, I was open to the idea. That feeling only got stronger when I heard the instrumental, which had a real sense of urgency to it, emphasized by the fact that it sped up continually as the track progressed (to the point that by the end it was moving at a truly blistering pace!). I decided to write five verses, each from a different perspective on the same topic. The first verse is how a young child might view climate change, the second verse is told from the perspective of an environmental scientist, the third is a corporate CEO (as I also wanted to present some of the typical ‘climate change denier’ arguments in the song), the fourth is told from the viewpoint of a polar bear, and the fifth and final verse is Mother Earth herself (which eventually led to the title of the track)”.