Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band: Big Crown Vaults Vol. 4 (ocean blue smoke coloured) LP

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. All accolades and international fame aside, "PIMP" is 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", that vault is opened to give all (well, most of) those tunes a proper pressing and release.