Jamie xx's remix of Gil-Scott Heron's entire album shows why he's leader of the new production pack

Meet the 22-year-old putting spidery indie dubstep into the work of the soul-funk poet Gil Scott-HeronJamie Smith – producer, remixer and one-third of Mercury prize-winning minimalists the xx – is obsessed with musical spaces and gaps, with absence, and what he calls the "perfect imperfect". The songs he crafts – be it for his band, or his solo tracks (as Jamie xx) or on the new Gil Scott-Heron remix album, We're New Here – tend to be stripped back to their bare bones and then fortified ...

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