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Everything Is Recorded

Everything Is Recorded is a genre-spanning collaborative project spearheaded by Richard Russell, an influential British producer who runs the highly successful independent label XL Recordings. The collective's releases are taken mostly from sessions at Russell's London recording studios, featuring a wide range of R&B, hip-hop, indie, and jazz musicians, including XL regulars like Sampha and Giggs, as well as more surprising guests such as violinist Warren Ellis, saxophonist Kamasi Washington, Crass' Penny Rimbaud, and Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah. The results encompass dark trip-hop, vulnerable alternative R&B, and brooding rap, as heard on Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell (2018) and Friday Forever (2020), followed by Temporary (2025), a digital folk conception that brought in Maddy Prior, Jah Wobble, and Bill Callahan, among others. Russell became the A&R manager for XL in the early '90s, when the fledgling label was initially focusing on rave music and techno. As part of the duo Kicks Like a Mule, Russell scored a U.K. Top Ten hit with the 1992 breakbeat hardcore classic "The Bouncer." While XL earned much of its early success with dance acts like the Prodigy and SL2, Russell (who had taken full control of the label by the mid-'90s) helped broaden the label's scope, with artists such as indie folk songwriter Badly Drawn Boy, Detroit garage rock duo the White Stripes, and grime pioneer Dizzee Rascal all releasing landmark recordings on the label during the first half of the 2000s. Russell continued working behind the scenes as a producer and musician -- he produced Gil Scott-Heron's final album, I'm New Here, and worked with Damon Albarn on several projects, including DRC Music, Bobby Womack's The Bravest Man in the Universe, and Albarn's Everyday Robots. Russell also produced Ibeyi's self-titled 2015 debut. Soon after, Russell began hosting the studio sessions that would form the basis of the Everything Is Recorded project. A website appeared, documenting studio and radio sessions, and debut EP Close But Not Quite arrived on XL in May of 2017, featuring the Sampha-sung title track and appearances by Scritti Politti's Green Gartside and London-based rapper Obongjayar, among others. Subsequent singles "Mountains of Gold" (with Sampha, Ibeyi, Wiki, and Kamasi Washington) and "Show Love" (with Syd and Sampha) appeared later in the year. Early in 2018, "Bloodshot Red Eyes" (featuring Gartside and Infinite) was issued just ahead of the full-length Everything Is Recorded by Richard Russell. Dedicated to Gil Scott-Heron and featuring a cover of his "Cane," the album debuted at number 66 on the U.K. chart in March. A second Everything Is Recorded album, Friday Forever, was released in April 2020 with a broader range of collaborators including A.K. Paul, Mariah Somerville, and Penny Rimbaud, along with Infinite and his father, Ghostface Killah. It coincided with the publication of a book written by Russell, Liberation Through Hearing: Rap, Rave & the Rise of XL Recordings. The following year saw Bristol drum'n'bass heavyweight Clipz deliver Saturday Specials, a complete remix of Friday Forever. By then, Russell had already started work on the next Everything Is Recorded album. He drew inspiration from collagists ranging from Steve Reich to the Bomb Squad, and was further fueled by wondering what folk music would have sounded like in the '80s if it had incorporated digital production techniques, as reggae had done. The album was put on hold after Russell and Samantha Morton worked on "You Were Smiling," a hushed ballad that prompted the two to write and record Daffodils & Dirt, an album released under the name SAM MORTON in June 2024. "Porcupine Tattoo," the first preview of the third Everything Is Recorded album, followed three months later. The song brought together the unlikely combination of Bill Callahan and Noah Cyrus. A handful of additional songs scattered over the next few months featured the likes of legendary bassist Jah Wobble and emergent indie rock trio mary in the junkyard. The loss-themed Temporary was issued in February 2025 with Steeleye Span's Maddy Prior, Florence Welch, and Nourished by Time also part of the project's growing cast.
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