Ruben & Ra At Juno Download

Review: Britain's answer to Tiger & Woods return with a four-track disco/house assault full of loopy builds, treacle-thick filters and cheeky 80s soul samples. While disco purists may sneer, the house-friendly Ruben & Ra sound has a lot going for it - not least a chunky, head-nodding pulse and some great dancefloor-friendly builds. They're capable of giving new twists to even the most obvious of sample/edit sources ("The Beat Reaction", for example, gives party staple "Give Me The Night" a pleasing re-boot), while their attempts at slow burning groovers are never less than excellent (see the wonderful builds of "Meet When?"). Worth checking, for sure.

Review: After making waves on vinyl, mysterious London duo Ruben & Ra's first edits 12" makes the transfer to digital download. For those who dig the housier end of the disco edits scene, Retrospective 001 should be essential listening. It takes the filter-heavy, muddy low-end disco/electrofunk pulse of Tiger & Woods and gives it a party-friendly, hands-in-the-air twist. So where T&W delight in building slow-burning epics from tracky loops and subtle builds, cuts like "Newer Shoes" (yep, a version of "I Can't Wait") and "Play My Song" prefer to get on with it. What you get is the best of both worlds - fun party jams with enough subtle variations and production tricks to impress the heads.

Review: Big Juno Download exclusive business here, as anonymous discoid duo Ruben & Ra present One Night At The Disco, tweaking four classics from the early 80s for 2012 floors. Without doubt our pick of the bunch here is "My Love", a tasteful remake of Ned Doheny's "To Prove My Love", although a similarly energised revision of Geraldine Hunt gives it a run for its money. We wont spoilt the source material for other two tracks - where's the fun in that? - but instead recommend you check them for yourselves; you won't be disappointed.