Nel Oliver At Juno Download

Review: Graeme Clark is best known for his edits - his reworks of Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye (in The Revenge and 6th Borough Project mode respectively) linger long in the memory - and here serves up four tweaks here that will feature on his debut album due out soonish on Joey Negro's Z Records imprint. As expected, the reworks of Mid Air, Chapter Three, Letta Mbulu and Nel Oliver are all done with the immaculate poise of a man who knows his studio inside out. There's a nice sprinkling of styles here, from driving discoid pumpers ("Ease Out") to Al Kent style frenetic vocal-led workouts ("Kilikamjaro") and smoky funk ("Dream On"), but it's the slo-mo acid crunch of "Smurf Trek" that takes that Juno cake.