All sounds on the five part series of Globe Stepping albums are sourced from original archive audio held in the cavernous vaults of the decades-old Boosey & Hawkes publishing company, known today as Imagem Production Music. Imagem have founded the 2NX label as a bespoke outlet for these new recordings, which draw deep from ethnocentric pools including African, Indian, Eurasian and South American, and a run of club-tooled beat-working versions will be released on limited 12” pressings outside of the full length CD and download output. First up, veteran Si Begg joins Tony on lead track ‘Kongotronic’, a rolling UK-bass-meets-funky number with bright synth stabs and distant African vocals. Next Nuphlo - declared “genius” by BBC Radio 1’s Bobby Friction - jumps on board to bring the desert storm to ‘Dusty Path’, where oud and flute textures float over furious percussion, with the most atmospheric drop you’ll hear in these early days of 2012. Finally, Mixmag “one to watch” and BBC 1Xtra favourite Pempi brings a more mellow edge to the Thorpe sound on ‘Chai Garden’, with its arcing melodies, skippy beats and a deep, punchy bass. Tony Thorpe is the ideal pilot for this project, with a huge knowledge and understanding of rhythm that has spawned such recent CV highpoints as his curation of the seminal Dub Step Chronicles event for Massive Attack’s Meltdown Festival, and being the catalytic element in On-U Sound’s Lee Scratch Perry dubstep remix collection.