Way back in the nineties, Andy Smith was best friends with Geoff Barrow. The pair shared in interest in the same music, collected records, set up their own nights locally and when Geoff started Portishead, Andy supplied the samples for the hip hop and film-esque rhythms which became their massive seminal trip-hop classic, Dummy. When the band went on the road, Andy was invited to join them as the Portishead DJ, playing sets before and after the band went on stage playing diverse sets of tunes old and new, obscure and popular, Hip Hop, Funk and Northern Soul. Inspired by his sets on tour and an oft-bootlegged radio show for Boston’s WFNX-FM, Smith compiled his own version of a classic ‘mixtape mash-up’. Entitled The Document and released on London Records in 1998, this album cut up ribbons of hip hop, funk, northern soul, 60¹s beats and some real wild-cards, causing dropping jaws and universal acclaim from hip-hop heads, funkateers, and electronic music fans across the board and Soundscanning over 17,000 copies in the US. Now after five long years, Andy Smith returns with what will prove to be yet another seminal chapter of The Document. Document 2 pairs up such unlikely musical bedfellows as Kate Bush, James Brown, Serge Gainsbourg, and Three Dog Night with Cut Chemist, Ultramagnetic MC’s, Eric B. & Rakim, and Smith’s own side project Dynamo Productions and the result is another classic mixtape for the ages!