Cam calls his own sound 'abstract hip hop', & his acclaimed album, Substances, offers a definition: streetwise beats laced with film samples, jazzy touches, eastern influences & great swathes of symphonic strings. Imagine DJ Krush, DJ Shadow & Massive Attack all gathering join some smoky Left Bank jazz cafe. It's an instrumental music that vaults all language barriers. As often as not the rhythm is implied rather than present, but hip hop provides both the music's structure & its production technique. At the decks, he's likely to be found spinning hard, fat breakbeats & heavy jungle. But on this specially crafted DJ Kicks mix- including Bronx Theme, a track composed exclusively for this album- he returns to his first love, plucking music from the UK, USA, France, Belgium & Switzerland to mix abstract hip hop with the real underground deal.
