Review: Some 13 months after the label's last round-up of cuts from associated "Rotten Citizens", Rotten City Files serves up a third edition of its popular annual compilation series. There's loads of music to set the pulse racing throughout, from the opening slo-mo chug of Roe Deers' suitably psychedelic "Hunting" and the throbbing, strobe-friendly pulse of Thomass Jackson's exotic "Copcacabana's Magic", to the New Wave era, post-punk hum of D.Y.O.R's "Devil's Way" and the Weatherall-friendly dark room mysticism of 'Do You Know" by Skelesys. We're also rather enamoured by the reverberating, 4/4 electro/dub disco fusion of Marco Dionigi's "Listen To My Beat".
Review: In the spring of 2017, Wolfstream debuted with a thrillingly skewed and intoxicated EP on Mange Moi that gently joined the dots between dub-disco, chugging nu-disco psychedelia and post-punk moodiness. They explore similar pastures on this follow-up for Rotten City Files, doffing a cap to fellow dystopian disco-nauts Red Axes and Moscoman on the wayward disco-punk trip that is end-of-days throb-job "No Future". While certainly moody, it's undoubtedly a floor-friendly affair; "Gone", on the other hand, is a foreboding slo-mo shuffler smothered in black eyeliner and gothic motifs. Of the accompanying remixes, it's Thomass Jackson's decidedly pagan re-make of "No Future" - think dark samba guitars, densely layered ritual percussion, pastoral flutes and hypnotic, head-nodding drum machine beats - that stands out.
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