Tinie Tempah is again and he’s heading straight to the dance flooring. The UK hitmaker has launched ‘To The Flooring (Vai Descendo)’, a high-energy collaboration with Afrojack that blends membership music with Brazilian baile funk influences.
The monitor seems on ‘12AM’, the second instalment of Tempah’s upcoming fourth album, ‘The Evening’s Not Useless’, due October sixteenth. Produced by Stargate alongside Afrojack and Tropkillaz, the excessive vitality monitor brings collectively a formidable crew of dance and digital producers for a file constructed to please the late evening lots.
“I’ve at all times liked travelling and discovering completely different sounds and cultures,” Tinie says. “By way of doing Brazilian jiu-jitsu I used to be uncovered to baile funk and the vitality round that complete scene. It actually stayed with me.”
The collaboration additionally has some historical past behind it. Tempah and Afrojack have identified one another for greater than 15 years, with the Dutch producer becoming a member of the monitor after listening to it whereas Norwegian file manufacturing and songwriting duo Stargate had been engaged on it.
“When he was within the studio with Stargate, he overheard the monitor and FaceTimed me saying he needed to leap on it,” the ‘Move Out’ rapper recollects. “It simply made sense.”
For Afrojack, the choice was equally easy. “The monitor had this unimaginable vitality from the beginning,” he says. “I like that it brings collectively Tinie’s sound with dance and Brazilian influences. It’s merely made for the membership.”
‘12AM’ is designed to soundtrack the purpose in an evening when anticipation offers approach to full-on launch. Throughout 4 tracks, Tempah strikes between the stomping two-step of ‘10 Minutes Later’, the main-room rush of ‘To The Flooring’, soulful home on ‘Physique 2 Physique’ and warehouse-ready drum and bass on ‘Backstage’.
It follows ‘9PM’, the primary chapter of ‘The Evening’s Not Useless’, which explored the anticipation and pleasure of the start of an evening out. The ultimate chapter, ‘3AM’, will flip in direction of the extra intimate aspect of nightlife – from afterparty conversations to the sudden moments that linger lengthy after the music stops. The three chapters will finally come collectively as the entire album, alongside further tracks.
‘The Evening’s Not Useless’ marks Tinie Tempah’s first full-length album since 2017’s ‘Youth’ and his first album in 9 years. Somewhat than merely celebrating membership tradition, the mission is framed across the human connection that occurs when folks collect in shared areas to expertise music collectively.
That message comes because the UK’s grassroots music infrastructure continues to face mounting strain, with impartial venues closing and communities dropping areas which have historically offered a place to begin for rising artists.
Tempah has partnered with Music Venue Belief and Save Our Scene as a part of an effort to spotlight the significance of defending these areas, with the marketing campaign set to increase right into a sequence of intimate dwell performances and underplays.
The rollout for the file has already translated into the dwell enviornment. Since ‘9PM’ arrived, ‘Heaven or Hell’ has turn into a spotlight of Tempah’s pageant units at BST Hyde Park, Boardmasters and Electrical Picnic, with footage of the gang response producing greater than half 1,000,000 views on-line.
Tinie Tempah will take the mission on the highway later this yr, starting the ‘The Evening’s Not Useless Tour’ in Stockholm on November sixteenth earlier than arriving at London’s Roundhouse on December third 2026. Tickets for all dates can be found to buy right here.
With ‘To The Flooring’, the subsequent chapter of the album is much less about easing into the evening than surrendering to it.
Obtain / stream ’12AM’ right here.
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