Theo Parrish At Juno Download

Review: Having previously employed Peverelist, Ricardo Villalobos and Antony 'Shake' Shakir to remix tracks from their excellent compilation of South African Shangaan Electro tracks, Honest Jon's turn to another titan of electronic music: Theo Parrish. In typical TP fashion, the resultant remix - a rework of a little-known original by Mancingelani - is both unfeasibly epic (a whisker under 13 minutes, all told) and insanely jazzy. With its alien bleeps, bonkers percussion, barely-audible double bass and breakbeck pace, this "Shangaan Shake" should be a mess. Instead, it sounds like Sun Ra making next-level Detroit house. Twisted but utterly inspired.

Review: A big welcome to Theo Parrish's Sound Signature imprint into the digital domain! We've come accustomed to Mr Parrish's records sounding like they've been beamed down from some distant star, but even by the Detroit maverick's lofty standards "STFU" is something else. Loose, hypnotic, scrambled and eerily distant, it sounds like twisted deep house jazz composed in another galaxy or even dimension. There are three varied versions, too. The original slowly builds thanks to layers and layers of delay-laden drums and freakish electronic motifs. The Short Version offers a neat, floor-friendly summary, while the Alt Version is even more of a fractious, next-level wig-out than the trippy original.