Carter Bros At Juno Download

Review: Australian imprint Cuckoo Music follow up their debut release, last years well received journey into nu disco from the infamous Adelaide duo Carter Brothers, with Starblazers Vol 1, a neat little sampler of the labels acts that dips between deep house, outer space disco and Detroit techno. The intriguingly titled 12" Phildo is first up with "Bradtoldmeto", where an off key cowbell rhythm sounds out over a thumping kick drum which mutates into a thickly filtered peak time bumper with intense changeups. Production newcomer Martinho utilises a dramatic speech about revolution on "Green Power" crafting a deep stripped back Detroit house feel around it as shuffling hats reverberate through straight pads against a backdrop of sinister synth stabs. The Carter Brothers make another appearance with "The Hook" an amazingly produced exercise in filtered house which takes all the plaudits here.

Review: The town of Mildura in Victoria probably doesn't rate on any global lists of disco hotspots, yet it was here that the Carter Brothers story began. Having relocated to Adelaide, South Australia, the Carter Bros fell under the global gaze of Rush Hour, who snapped up their latest single "Full Metal Jacket". There's not much to either the original or the dub version - in this respect it brings to mind Kerri Chandler's "Bar A Thym" - because what it does, it does brilliantly: locking into a loop and riding it along for the tracks' duration with uplifting synth sweeps and divine horns dovetailing insouciantly. Nebraska meanwhile does a sterling job on remix duties, chopping up the beat, filtering it and adding in some vocals and brass farts for maximum value!