BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND – BIG CROWN VAULTS VOL. 4 (OCEAN BLUE SMOKE) - LP •
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BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND – BIG CROWN VAULTS VOL. 4 (OCEAN BLUE SMOKE) - LP •

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BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND – BIG CROWN VAULTS VOL. 4 (OCEAN BLUE SMOKE) - LP •UPC: 349223018141 Label: BIG CROWN Format: LP Release Date: May 2, 2025 In stock items ship within 48 hours Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, the mysterious steel pan outfit hailing from Hamburg, Germany made significant noise in 2024 when French film Anatomy of a Fall won an Academy Award for best original screenplay. Bacaos cover of 50 Cents PIMP was featured so heavily in the film and plays such a huge role in the storyline that it became synonymous with

UPC: 349223018141
Label: BIG CROWN
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Release Date: May 2, 2025
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Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band, the mysterious steel pan outfit hailing from Hamburg, Germany made significant noise in 2024 when French film Anatomy of a Fall won an Academy Award for best original screenplay. Bacao’s cover of 50 Cent’s “PIMP” was featured so heavily in the film and plays such a huge role in the storyline that it became synonymous with its success. Subsequently, they ushered in the first appearance of steel pans in the orchestra pit at the Academy Awards so they could play the tune as director Justine Triet walked on stage to accept the award. All of this brought a lot of new fans to Bacao and pushed the streaming numbers of “PIMP” well past 40 million. For those in the know, this tune made its way into underground fame back in 2008 when it was first pressed on band leader Bjorn Wagner’s own Mocambo imprint and was often mistaken for the original sample source from which 50 made his hit.

All accolades and international fame aside, “PIMP” is literally just the tip of the Bacao iceberg. With four full length albums and a tall stack of 7” singles that have become staples to DJs around the world, they have been prolific since signing with Big Crown in 2014. Despite the constant releases and elaborate catalog, every recording session has borne more fruit than could fit on an album, leaving a handful of tunes in the recording vault. Here on Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 we open up that vault and give all (well, most of) those tunes a proper pressing and release. 

The album opens up with their cover of the Bob James uber-classic breakbeat “Nautilus” and they put a spin on the original that puts it directly in the must have category for all hip hop and breakbeat enthusiasts. Keeping their foot on the gas, they give the BRSB treatment to the Khruangbin classic “Maria También” with their signature bottom heavy drums taking the energy of the tune to a whole new place. Infamous for digging deep in the crates when picking material to reinterpret, they next take on Royce the 5’9”’s J Dilla produced “Let’s Grow”. Originally the B side to the first pressing of “PIMP” (and making an appearance on the very limited first 2LP pressing of their debut album 55) we put the “PIMP (Version)” on here where they give their original recording the proper dub treatment with melodica and tape echo galore. They turn up the tempo and the funk covering the Jackson 5’s “Great To Be Here” and again dive deep into obscurity with the Billy Jonesdancefloor burner “Lookout Baby (Here I Come)”. While part of the allure of a new Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band album is finding out what covers they are going to take on, it is equally intriguing to see what original tunes they’ve cooked up. While BCR Vaults Vol. 4 only has one original, “Kaiso Noir”, it’s an uptempo crowd-pleaser that sounds like a mix between a b-boy break and a James Bond score. 

This collection of songs spans from 2008 to 2023 and explores a variety of genres, from hip-hop to jazz to soul and pop, through the Bacao lens. The band is already working on their fifth full-length studio album, and this compilation should be the perfect thing to hold fans over until it arrives.



TRACK LIST:

A1 Nautilus
A2 Maria También
A3 Let’s Grow
A4 PIMP (Version)
A5 Look Out (Here I Come)
A6 Great To Be Here
A7 Juicy Fruit
B1 8th Wonder
B2 Murkit Gem
B3 All For The Cash
B4 Kaiso Noir
B5 Guess Who’s Back
B6 Giana Sisters
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