London, UK based DJ and producer. 　　 　　Romare has spent the last year collecting samples and working on a concept: that a new form of music can emerge by investigating the relationship between different musical cultures through sampling. 　　 　　Samples of songs, speeches, interviews, field recordings and films were carefully chosen and rearranged to explore the connection between African and African-American music. Rhythms from West Africa are integrated with voices from Harlem, conversations about race and identity between writers and ethnomusicologists are constructed, speeches from activists are conjoined with the voices of prisoners. This process of combining preexisting material has inspired four Meditations on Afrocentrism. 　　 　　Originally, information about each sample was going to be disclosed on the back of the record sleeve, giving listeners the opportunity to trace each sample and form an interpretation of the song through an understanding of the different sample sources. 　　 　　Unfortunately, due to copyright laws, this has not been possible and instead an audio track was composed entitled Footnotes (Meditations on Afrocentrism) to communicate the concept instead. This 13 minute track of cut up samples describes the processes involved and the themes of each track, in order to try and convey the concept behind Meditations on Afrocentrism within the confines of music law today. 　　 　　The track will only be available digitally in all online stores except itunes, as they were unable to categorize it. But it should be heard in order to understand what Romare wanted to accomplish. 　　 　　Meditations on Afrocentrism will be out on the 5th of March 2012 on 12" and digitally.