Uto Karem At Juno Download

Review: Slovenian wunderkind Umek has long since left behind the bone-crushing techno and alien electro which he made his name with - and now looks determined to break into the mainstream. Rolling club techno has been Umek's stock in trade for years - it was also a style he made during his purist phase for the Earrisistible label - but Crossing The Line does what its title suggests and traverses the boundary with pop thanks to its insistent vocal snippets and tantalising breakdown. Remixer Ramon Tapia doesn't deviate from Umek's script; while his drums sound looser and the chord stabs are more frenzied, when he leads the listener into the filtered breakdown there's no doubt where the focus is.