Review: Parisian disco-funkateers The Big Hustle made his debut in 2016, self-releasing a double album's worth of instrumental hip-hop and jazz-funk workouts. Here the band pops up on Betino's Records with a fine EP full of ear-pleasing organic instrumentation and tasty, floor-friendly grooves. African vocalist Cheick Tidane Seck guests in "Afrorever", a jaunty chunk of jazz-funk/Afro-disco fusion blessed with killer keys solos and rising horn lines. The Sunas Up remix of the same cut drags the track further towards deep house-meets-Afro-house territory, with warm chords, keys and live bass clustering round a pleasingly groovy rhythm track. Elsewhere, "Faure is the Magic Number" is a seductive, string-laden chunk of hip-hop/jazz-funk fusion, while closer "1,2,1,2" is a straight-up live hip-hop jam complete with tight raps from Raashan Ahmad.
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