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“We set out to put our thoughts and musical ideas out there, hoping they’d be appreciated. That’s proved to be true”: Sampled by Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul and the Fugees, Cymande shaped the sound of hip-hop. Now they’re back to claim their legacy

Cymande’s influence on hip-hop culture is huge. But with new album Renascence, the spotlight returns to the funk institution, and Patrick Patterson is here to play

Guitar World

Glastonbury 2025: the 1975, Neil Young and Olivia Rodrigo to headline

Charli xcx, the Prodigy and Loyle Carner will headline the Other stage, with first-time sets from Alanis Morissette, Doechii and En Vogue

The Guardian - UK

Cymande: the most undervalued London band ever?

Cymande are the funk legends who were loved in America but ignored in the UK, and are now about to have all the world’s attention with a killer new album

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“We have no problem with sampling. If it hadn’t been for that you probably wouldn’t be interviewing us today”: Cymande bassist Steve Scipio on how the funk pioneers were almost buried before crate diggers like De La Soul and the Fugees brought them back

Ahead of a brand-new album, Scipio reveals what he’s kept and what he’s changed over 50 years of playing bass – and why he still only needs one pedal

Guitar World

Mo Kolours: "For basslines I’d use GarageBand, until I borrowed a microKORG off somebody. Man, I loved it so much - I was cranking out 20/30 beats a day"

Mo Kolours on crafting the electic melting pot of trip-hop/dub/jazz fusion that made up his 2014 debut

MusicRadar

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande review – the 70s London funk band rediscovered

This Buena Vista-style documentary about a band who found a new life via the dancefloor is overlong but worth it for the music

The Guardian - UK

Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande review – the second life of a cruelly ignored UK funk band

They toured the US and headlined Harlem’s Apollo while no UK TV show would air them – but their legacy was rescued by hip-hop

The Guardian - UK

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