Review: Somepoe finally returns to the excellent Sounds Of Sumo, home to the likes of Kry Wolf and Tommy Kid, with six-pronged bass attacks spanning UKG, house and even a dash of r&b. "Trembles (Everytime U Smile)" is a stepping garage rhythm complete with wailing, instantly seductive female vocals, while "Pinar" is odder, slower and more haphazard on the beat structure. The title track "Skull Dance" is an uplifting bass nugget with a half-step beat and cinematic melodies, whereas "About To Go" returns to garage territories thanks to its straighter kicks and repetitive vocal samples. There's two remixes within, the first is a touch up of "Trembles" by Karnak, who strips the vocals down and injects more of a house vibe; Mark Spence rewires "About To Go" into a slamming house jacker with a heavy kick and neat melodic swirls.
Review: Kry Wolf's Sounds Of Sumo celebrate five years of prize fighting with this superb 14-track newness of an opus. With cuts from some of the label's most distinctive members and new faces alike, the collection seeps freshness from every twist and turn... Bondax's silky two-step twist of Mak & Pasteman's "Heat", Somepoe's super-sharp-stepper "Late Night Bootie", the deep dubby tech squiggles of Tony Goods' "2 Scoops", Tee Circus's dangerously overweight warp session "Plus 8". The list goes on. Versatile, creative and overwhelmingly funky, here's to another five years.
Review: 22 year-old Finnish producer Somepoe has already graduated from the Red Bull Music Academy in New York, has had a string of hot singles and guest mixed on Radio1. He doesn't mess about, and here on the Leave The House EP, neither do his tunes. Bass is the order of the day, but often playful like the sped up RnB munchkin vocals on the loop heavy "Baby HA". Elsewhere the title track shows us his penchant for deep sultry house and "Places" fuses trippy house and '90s swing vibes perfectly, although Nightwave also nails with his roof raisin' jackin' bassline remix.
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