Review: Laurent Garnier and Oliver Way's COD3 QR label has spent much of 2024 offering up lightly themed, compilation style mini albums packed to the rafters with new music from rising stars and early-career artists. They're on that tip again here, serving up an octet of tracks from French and British artists. As you'd expect for something curated by Garnier, the standard of material on show is very high, with highlights including the rumbling hip-house-goes-techno pump of 'They Just Talkin' by Jay Robinson, the synth-strings smothered tease-and-release joy of Works of Intent's 'Archive Our Past', the deep, dark and dubby techno hypnotism of Paul Roux's 'Deep Space Jam', and the murky, industrial-tinged IDM/tech-house fusion of 'Fog' by Sebastian Russell.
Review: Tour-Maubourg's 2023 EP 'Floating On Silence' was a deep house delight, so hopes are naturally high for this remixed and reworked edition of the EP. Priori and Hanna both tackle 'Longing For You', with the former delivering a deep, groovy, undulating and subtly percussive revision, and the latter dropping a more ghostly, bass-heavy revision tailor-made for dark rooms at 4AM. Chateau Flight member (and bona fide French legend) I:Cube drops a dubby, spacey and deliciously loose-limbed interpretation of 'I Wanna' full of subtle nods to intergalactic synth-pop, bleep and Detroit techno, while Edmondson successfully takes 'Nite People' to ultra-deep and drowsy territory. Arguably best of all, though, is K-Lone's shuffling, warm and sub-heavy take on 'Floating On Silence', which utilises the rhythmic funkiness of UK garage.
Review: Oh gosh! Waeys and Molecular together on a whole EP of collabs? Critical are really spoiling us here. First up is 'Arrows' which shoots directly to the floor with its unruly groove and eerie undertones. 'Heads Anthem' follows with its sizzling high voltage riff that's been making a lot of DJs go bonkers this summer. Finally we have 'Strapped', the wonkiest and swampiest gem of the set. Wobbly, unapologetic, heavy. These are most definitely for the heads, the souls, the hearts and the dancing feet. Get involved.
Review: With quite a few prior collabs under their collective caps, UK's Tim Reaper and Australia's Kloke get busy with this album-sized dispatch on the mighty Hyperdub. There's a lot to take in... Not only do the duo live up to the album title's name and take things to the fullest of effects with their militant amens and unapologetic energy, but it's also Hyperdub's first ever jungle album! Highlights include the hardcore stomps of 'Impasse', the breakneck slammage of 'Blood Pressure' and the eerie finale cut 'Wildstyle'. Full marks.
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