Alpha Steppa – 3rd Kingdom (LP)

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Following an extensive year touring, Alpha Steppa returns with his second studio album, 3rd Kingdom on Steppas Records. Due for release on 7/7/17 (coinciding with the 7th year of Steppas Records), the album is a product of his travels around the world, and exists as a sort of travel diary that chronicles the people he’s met and collaborated with and the experiences he’s picked up on the way.

With a total of twelve tracks and an extensive list of featuring artists, 3rd Kingdom is an eclectic mix of reggae, dub and electronic music, future steppas, and world music. The majority of the collaborating artists Alpha Steppa met through travelling and come from all around the world – Russia, Italy/Senegal, Nigeria, Jamaica, Suriname, Brazil, to name just a few. It’s been a genuine attempt, through these collaborations, to pull a global community together – to give a feeling that it’s actually local despite being spread all over the world.

Eastern philosophy (e.g. Taoism, and classic texts such as the I Ching) plays a big part in both Alpha Steppa’s music and personal life, and one feature of the album is that with each track a small element is taken and used to initiate the next track. Whether it’s just a hi-hat, a sample, a reverb, or snare, each track is connected and gives it an overall unity and consistency, so as to come full circle:

“when you get to the end of the album, you’re right back at the beginning”

For Alpha Steppa it is perhaps a responsibility he feels to promote a truly intergenerational, inclusive scene that unites everyone under the physical and emotional power of sound system culture.

“We call it conscious soundsystem music, which basically means that when we are producing a song or working with an artist, we like to have some kind of a message, it’s as much about the message as it is the music.”

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VINYL TRACK LISTING

01 Alpha Steppa – 3rd Kingdom (feat. Tenor Youthman)
02 Alpha Steppa – Heart Made of Stone (feat. Sistah Awa)
03 Alpha Steppa – Ancient Tribes (feat. Nai-Jah)
04 Alpha Steppa – Concrete Meditation
05 Alpha Steppa – Soulfire (feat. Double Tiger)
06 Alpha Steppa – Mek We March (feat. Cologne)
07 Alpha Steppa – Mycelial Connection (feat. High Public Sound)
08 Alpha Steppa – Jah Jah Creation (feat. Jonah Dan, Ras Tinny & Don Fe)
09 Alpha Steppa – The Time Has Come (feat. Nai-Jah & Ras Divarius)
10 Alpha Steppa – Prophecies Unfold (feat. Cologne)