Shadow Child At Juno Download

Review: It's the season for giving, so Hot Since 82 and Shadow Child have decided to exchange presents - or, more specically, remix each other's tracks. The result is a four-tracker that features two original tracks and two remixes. Hot Since 82's snappy, tech-meets-electro house jam "Knee Deep In Louise" gets given a right Royal boot up the backside by bass music fiends Shadow Child - think rave riffs, gut-twisting sub bass action and 2012's most omnipresent electronic music attraction, the pitched-down vocal sample. Meanwhile, Hot Since 82 turn Shadow Child's Hypercolour-ish garage/deep house assault, "So High", into a strobelight house anthem with woozy, pitched down R&B vocal samples and swinging drums aplenty.

Review: Shadow Child is the new moniker for Dave Spoon aka Simon Neale (he has a lot of names). Having started 2012 with SC's debut single via Dirtybird, his new sound has really started to fly. This new one, "Bordertown", is slow and menacing with bass so deep, even the toughest bins will buckle under its weight. Complimenting the dark music, we get a monotonous female vocal on top which gets really brought to life in the gorgeous, funked up garagey mix by Synkro. Gacha provides another great mix too, which is a really deep synth odyssey.