Sling Shot - (3:45) 86 BPM
Review: A-Trak has been on a run of collaborations of late, delivering bold, energetic, club-ready cuts with everyone from Todd Terry and Baauer, to Friend Within and Jamie Lidell. In fact, this four-tracker marks the long-serving Canadian producer's first solo single in six years. It's a typically funky, driving, weighty and peak-time-ready selection, with A-Trak first offering up a mutated riff on the heavily cut-up, disco-bass-driven insanity that many associate with the late '90s French Touch sound ('Split'), before dropping a more filter-heavy, sample-rich take on disco-house ('Bubble Guts'). His ability to create killer grooves out of savagely cut-up stabs, samples and beats comes to the fore on techno-funk stomper 'Sling Shot', while closing cut 'Be Bop' sits somewhere between the synth-laden goodness of Metro Area and dreamy deep house.