Virgil Howe At Juno Download

Review: A pair of excellent drummers come together for Breaking Bread's Drums Series, where new breaks are forged in tribute to the classic funk/soul/rock breaks of yore. Howe and Claydon join forces with members of The Killer Meters on the excellent 'The Claydon Break" which recalls the epic soul-rock of Dennis Coffey and needles to say is packed with beautifully recorded raw, fatback drums. On a more psych tip, "Cosmic Exotica" disappears into deep, spacey territory with some gloriously library-esque Moogs providing an astral drive to the already hypnotic groove.

Review: Part of the Breakin' Bread's "Drums Series", two experimentalists and studio dons - Virgil Howe and Shawn Lee - cook up some live breaks and funky sci-fi Moogs for this excellent single. With the aim of the series to get producers to abandon loops and sequencers and produce all their beats live, the pair work up a storming LCD meets Dennis Coffey break that is enlivened with some tight psych-electro melodies. "Go Go Gadget Break" is possibly even better - strongly and gloriously recalling the "Go-Go" sound of early '80s acts such as Trouble Funk and the Junkyard Band.