Review: The artist originally known as Stupid Human, Hugh Mane, has delivered many of his most impactful club cuts on Gerd Janson's Running Back label, leaving his imprint (also called Stupid Human) as a vehicle for a wider variety of sounds. 'Concepts & Sketches', his latest EP, continues in this vein, first offering up a jaunty, musically expansive and undeniably colourful excursion that blurs the boundaries between nu-disco, electrofunk and starry deep house ('The Road Is Bad'), before giving us his take on P-Funk via the Dam-Funk-esque 'Ravi's Groove'. 'Empirical Jams' takes a tactile, intergalactic-sounding approach to deep house dustiness, while closing cut 'Landing Zone' is a wonderfully glassy-eyed and vibrant take on spacey synth-funk.
Review: Killer debut on the Stupid Human label from System Status and Hugh Mane! The more attentive diggers out there will recognise System Status from a pair of excellent 12"s on his own Night Sweats label and he's also contributed to the Horn Wax cause. "Hands" finds the Cambridge based producer in fine form, laying down a crisp, boogie indebted production that has one of the warmest basslines in some time. Inskwel is a good choice to remix the track, given his own boogie flecked tastes and the Australian producer turns in a wonderfully gritty slowed down take that complements the original. Following his debut for Gerd Janson's Running Back, (not so) mysterious Hugh Mane provides "Up Synth Creek With A Greek", based around a naggingly familiar recycled melodic refrain that will nestle right in your head.
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