Drop Out Sounds At Juno Download

Review: Following their well received Live Selection EP, the Drop Out Orchestra continue the pressure with a single track Drop Out Cutz release that's just brimming with bittersweet disco flavour. There's a lovely live disco-soul feel to the "High On Love" edit, despite the addition of all manner of new percussive elements (a regular Drop Out Cutz trick) and the faint whiff of 21st century FX. What really makes the track, though, is the source material. In combination, the breezy horns and uplifting (but strangely melancholic) vocal are addictive, and there's enough percussive pressure to provide plenty of peaktime thrills.

Review: The Drop Out Sounds crew returns with another solid selection of raw disco and electrofunk edits. The "live" element of the title clearly refers to the rolling, often densely layered added percussion added to a number of the tracks, most notably the horn-heavy "Freebie". It's a trick that works well, and gives what are basically dancefloor-friendly disco dubs an extra kick. There's a delay-laden dubbiness to the electrofunk cuts on display, with "Stockholm" in particular standing out (see also "Une Guerriere"). The real killer, though, is the near 15-minute smooth groove that is "Feelin' It", a veritable disco-soul epic.