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Make Your Mark: This song is about ambition.

Sometimes in life, we often tell ourselves that we're going to do something and/or commit to what we want to do in life only for us to not do it, and that mentality exists for several reasons: depression, lack of motivation, not enough time, etc.

In my case, it was all of the above. As someone who has always had a passion for music growing up, there were several instances in my life where I wasn't able to commit to my passion and pursue what I truly love.

All of that changed when my mother passed away a couple of years back from brain cancer. My mother was a hard worker. She was the type of person that worked a lot and never had enough time on her hands to do what she wants to do in life.

If there was one thing I've learned during my years of mental preparation for the worst case scenario to arrive, it was to live my life to the fullest without any regrets, and to finally pursue what I love, and "Make My Mark" on not just the industry, but to "Make My Mark" on peoples lives, in pursuit of making a positive difference on someones life through music. But that's just a very in-depth explanation of the themes of this song. Here is the short version:

Ambition doesn't always come within ourselves. Sometimes, it starts with the people in our lives who provide us with the ambition and the drive we need to carry on. Now I'm more emboldened than ever to make something of myself: To "Make My Mark".

Press play on Make Your Mark:

Res One - Building Up

Scritti Politti featuring Mos Def and Lee Majors- Tinseltown to the Boogiedown

Green Gartside: “There are no real samples on this record. Anything that sounds like a sample I made with a couple of cassette recorders in a flat above a dentist’s surgery in Newport, South Wales. Don’t ask. The record is really an unguarded effusion of influences with free rein given to the urge to strum a guitar – which overcomes me, periodically – and a compulsion to pretend to be DJ Premier. Strings are by the peerless Paul Riser the Motown genius who arranged some of the greatest records ever: My Girl, I Heard It Through The Grapevine and Papa Was A Rolling Stone. ‘From night stick to plungers to N.Y.P.D.’ raps Lee Majors. Remember Louima?”

David Gamson: “Motown strings on a hip hop track! I remember we mixed this a few times and I ended-up doing the final mix in the second bedroom at my house in LA, which was my studio. This might have been my first attempt to mix anything other than demos. I think I played bass on this too. All the collaborations with guest rappers, singers and musicians, really made recording this album a joy.”

Following a reissue process overseen by Green Gartside the band's acclaimed albums Cupid & Psyche 85 and Anomie & Bonhomie are out now on vinyl.

You can buy them here: https://scrittipolitti.ffm.to/reissues