Mic Newman At Juno Download

Review: The title track on Mic Newman's latest release has a truly contemporary flavour, as tribal beats underpin a humming, acidic bass and muffled vocals are put through a filter. The end result is a a trippy excursion, but when Newman turns his attention to the past, he really impresses. "Recorded In The Garage" uses more organic sounding drums, but it's the soulful female vocal that gradually dominates the arrangement which makes it so memorable - and evocative of late 90s UK deep house. "Systems & A Diana" follows a similar trajectory, albeit with looser beats, but when the combination of fat bassline, woozy chords a vocal intoning 'think' kick in together, it sounds like a forgotten classic from Pagan's back catalogue.