Tracklisting: 1. Riding Home (DVA's Hi: Emotions Remix) 2. Riding Home (Cooly G Remix) 3. Riding Home (Original) 4. Riding Home (Instrumental) Former Mattafix frontman Marlon Roudette will commence his solo career with the October 24th release of his debut EP ‘Riding Home’ on Warner Bros. Records. The EP features four tracks that will appear on the London-based singer-songwriter’s debut album ‘Matter Fixed’ that will be released next year. The songs are as influenced by Roudette’s globetrotting past – from the rum-soaked bars and heaving clubs of his former hometown, Kingstown in St. Vincent, to tours roaming the Middle-East and Africa – as they are by the iconic sounds of Massive Attack, Sade, Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin. A special white label remix edition of the EP is also being released exclusively on 12” vinyl. This will feature rare remixes by renowned Hyperdub all stars and UK bass pioneers, Cooly G and Scratcha DVA. Only 500 copies will be made. The title track effortlessly merges Roudette’s authentic laidback raps with dub grooves and blissful Caribbean vibes, which contributes to the eclectic sounds on offer throughout the EP. ‘Didn’t I’ balances reflective lyrical themes and contrasting summery grooves, BRIT and MOBO winner Finley Quaye contributes vocals and guitar to ‘True To Yourself’, while the closing track ‘The Loss’ was written in tribute to Roudette’s late grandmother, an inspirational figure despite losing her sight as a child. Currently enjoying success across Europe with his debut single ‘New Age’ that has spent eight weeks at the top of the German charts, Roudette will preview the release of the ‘Riding Home’ EP with an intimate London show at YOYO at Notting Hill Arts Club on October 20th. Roudette first hit music’s big time in 2005 as one-half of hip-hop / dancehall fusion duo Mattafix, whose breakthrough single ‘Big City Life’ hit #1 in six countries and provided them with a Top 20 hit in the UK. Such was their success, that the duo were even named as ambassadors for the Save Darfur campaign. Despite Mattafix’s subsequent split, Roudette never lost inspiration. “It was a period of loss. I was engaged and managed to screw that up quite royally – all the trappings that come with being in your early twenties and on tour, having bit of money and all the rest of it. It felt like it was the end of the world. And my label at the time lost faith in me too. So it was a lot of different types of loss that triggered an emotional time, but it was a very creative period too.” The result is his upcoming debut solo ‘Matter Fixed’, an album of universal music which comes straight from the heart and embraces the soul. “The difference between this album and anything I’ve done before is the personal vibe. I’ve literally just told my life as it is.”