Urban Tribe At Juno Download

Review: More from Rick Wilhite's superb collection of new and little-known Detroit house bombs. This time round, it's Kenny Dixon Jnr's Urban Tribe outfit under the microscope, with Wilhite and Dixon himself providing esoteric remixes. In typical fashion, the Moodymann rub of "My First Mistake" is something of a wonky treat - all clav-heavy grooves, lazy jazz drums, odd vocal samples and urgent keys. Wilhite's version of "D2000" - under his Godson alias - is similarly jazz-flecked, offering a crackling house groove with a typically Detroitian techno sensibility (and, for some reason, strange sound drop-outs). Reach for the stars, kids, reach for the stars.

Review: Whilst there are plenty of producers from Detroit who command the "legendary" prefix, Sherard Ingram is more worthy than most. His work as Urban Tribe - which includes the album The Collapse Of Modern Culture produced in tow with Carl Craig, Anthony Shake Shakir and Moodymann - has marked Ingram out amongst the second wave of Detroit techno acts. Ingram also pioneered the usage of electro tracks at 45rpm whilst playing in clubs as DJ Stingray. The Loyal Oppostion EP sees Urban Tribe resurface on the Planet E imprint (with a spot of help from C2C) and gives you four tracks of abstract mutant techno. On "Micro Manager" lush Detroit soundscapes are given the jackhammer treatment by uptempo kicks, whilst "Sycophant" offers up brooding motor city soul at its best. The punishing jagged industrial funk of "Apathy" and the abundance of lackadaisical synth washes on "Insolitology" round off a return to form for Planet E.