NEW MUSIC | DIPS & LO-WU TODAY REVEAL BRAND-NEW SINGLE ‘TRIP’, FROM THEIR DEBUT MIXTAPE ‘IDLE HANDS’

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South Lon­don duo Dips & Lo-Wu today reveal their debut mix­tape ‘Idle Hands’ and release its lead single ‘Trip.’

Inspired by Dips’ form­at­ive years grow­ing up in South-East Lon­don, ‘Trip’ is a power­ful, grime-infused track that offers an insight into the key role music has played in the duo’s story to date.

Speak­ing about ‘Trip’, Dips says:

“The Lo-Wu inspired pro­duc­tion takes us through phases of hard-hit­ting rhythm and melody, through the motions of a tur­bu­lent adoles­cence. Ulti­mately, the song shows that des­pite grow­ing up in a rough and test­ing envir­on­ment of ‘the ends’, we were ulti­mately saved by ‘the sound.’”

‘Trip’ fol­lows pre­vi­ous tracks ‘Queen of Hearts’, cel­eb­rated by Clash as “an instant anthem”, ‘The Ride II’, deemed “an eer­ie drill-infused pro­duc­tion” by GRM Daily, and ‘BSL’, described as “an all-Lon­don link up… that matches the leg­acy of UKG to some soul­ful song writ­ing” by Clash. All four tracks fea­ture on ‘Idle Hands’.

‘Idle Hands’ is the cul­min­a­tion of years of col­lab­or­a­tion between Dips & Lo-Wu, hav­ing star­ted the mixtape’s earli­est tracks in 2018. Fea­tur­ing con­tri­bu­tions from the likes of Lex Amor, Moses Day, The Mel­man and Mundu, the mix­tape show­cases Dips’ unique lyr­ic­al flair and is under­pinned by Lo-Wu’s genre-fus­ing pro­duc­tion.

Speak­ing about the title ‘Idle Hands’ and the themes the pair explore on the mix­tape, Lo-Wu says:

“Grow­ing up it felt like we all had idle hands and the whole ends was the devil’s work­shop. For­tu­nately for Dips and I, it was our love of music that kept us groun­ded. In the ‘Idle Hands’ mix­tape we try to cap­ture Lon­don liv­ing through our lens and through the lens of oth­ers around us. Dips and I both grew up in neigh­bour­ing areas in South East Lon­don. We have very sim­il­ar exper­i­ences and stor­ies as two young men from Nigeri­an back­grounds com­ing from humble begin­nings, grind­ing to make ends meet, chas­ing girls, often get­ting up to no good but ulti­mately striv­ing for suc­cess.”

Dips elab­or­ates:

“The sat­is­fac­tion of mak­ing music replaced the need to belong to the wrong type of people. I believe it stopped us from get­ting into gangs, viol­ence that many of our friends were involved in. This mix­tape tells a story of the boys that made it out on the oth­er side, thanks to the gift of music. Des­pite the tempta­tions in ‘the ends’, and some slip ups, music took our focus and was a safe space to chan­nel our anger, frus­tra­tions, bore­dom, excite­ment, joy and anxi­ety. We are here to tell our story over ener­get­ic pro­duc­tion that is both phys­ic­ally and emo­tion­ally mov­ing.”

The mix­tape was recor­ded in The Dust Stu­di­os in Bow, East Lon­don.

The full track list is below:

1. Trip
2. Take Off
3. The Ride II
4. Queen of Hearts
5. Act­ive (feat. Lex Amor)
6. BSL (feat. Mundu)
7. Lost
8. Kreepa (feat. Moses Day)
9. Idle Hands
10. Con­crete (feat. The Mel­man)

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