Gang Colours At Juno Download

Review: Off the back of his debut album, Gang Colours highlights a lead single here that sounds as though it could dare to challenge drive time radio with its heartfelt, James Blake-esque vocal turn and rich melodic sensibilities. It's a crafty track full of production savvy and flair which should propel the producer far. On remix duty, Machinedrum injects the original's laconic atmosphere with some mean jungle breaks operating on multiple levels, while both Ifan Dafydd and Deft opt for their own versions of heartfelt electronics for the more sensitive steppers out there. Excellent all round package.

Review: First introduced to Gilles Peterson's Brownswood label by Ghostpoet, Southampton's Gang Colours makes a confident and impressive debut with this effervescent EP. Weird and woozy textures and soundscapes are the order of the day here, backed with minimal tech-step beats that shiver and crackle in the style of Burial and Mount Kimbie. The incredibly vivid "Village & City" rides a slow, snapping garage beat amongst a wave of chorus-effected notes, while "Fireworks In Pockets" brilliantly uses a cappella cuts over the rising/descending note patterns. Best of the bunch though is "Dance Around The Subject" which builds from a stuttering start into a triplets-accented, multi-octave beauty that's wonderfully hazy and delirious. A debut to definitely get involved with.

Review: Fast settling themselves into the Brownswood roster, Gang Colours follow up on their EP with this long-player of introspective and many shaded vignettes. "Forgive Me?" particularly tugs at the heart strings with its plaintive piano, while the lilting beat and vocal of "To Repel Ghosts" melts any remaining stone-based coronary matter present. As the piano on the album cover might suggest, ivory-tinkling informs much of the music on The Keychain Collection, and as a result this album is best suited to those more thoughtful moments in your life. The composition and heartfelt emotion make all ten tracks an absolute triumph for electronic music with soul.

Review: It can sometimes be tricky getting the right blend on a remix package, but Blind Colour seem to have pulled it off here. Ink Project's decidedly downtempo "Rewind Forward Replay" is pulled in many different directions, all of which enhance the dreamy original. VVV opts for simmering, reverb-laden strings and loose, subtle two-step garage rhythms on his haunting remake and Kulture delivers a kind of trip-hop/dubstep fusion. Memotone does his best impression of Mount Kimbie on a delightfully adventurous take, before Tom Eales offers up a straightforward house take on the EP's most obviously dancefloor-centric version.