K Lab At Juno Download

Review: Junkfood head honcho K Lab frees up some time on the release schedule for his own debut album, and not a moment too soon. Wallowing with mischief in the fields of glitch and nu-funk, there's a subversive, off-beat trippy feeling to his work that a lot of current nu-funk is missing. Take "Tricks", a real wonky roller, it's plastered in Kraftwerkian electro angularity. Take the heaving, icy slammer "The Funk Hammer", written with D&B artist Dose it's a thundering bass composition that owes just as much to Paul Hardcastle and Harold Faltermeyer as it does Freq Nasty or Bassnectar. Take "Bangvaders", a wobbling tower of sci-fi and old school references, it's reminiscent of Unique 3 and early TCR releases. Take the whole lot; it's a very accomplished album.

Review: New Zealand is popping some serious funk prospects right now and Junkfood is home to many of them. Here we find label mainstays K Lab doing a fantastic impression of Glitch Mob thanks to some sharp lyrical patter from The Mic Smith and a serious of depraved bass funk streams: One waspy and pert, one robot-dying flavoured and oh-so-saggy. With some lovely echoed trumpet and guitar flickers and an instrumental thrown in for good measure, Junkfood have belied their unhealthy moniker and provided us with something rather nutritious.