Review: Mark Knight & Co. are straight up with their latest title - but considering their current 15th birthday celebrations, these guys can do whatever they want - they hardly do wrong anyway! House, Tech House, Techno Vol 2 does exactly what is says on the tin with a whopping 62 tracks and three continuous mixes - each dedicated to said subgenre. From that massive remix of Fatboy Slim's "Right Here, Right Now" by current scene favourites CamelPhat, Saved main man Nic Fanciulli's collaboration with Damon Albarn on "Saying" (Kolsch remix), label head honcho Knight himself steps up to deliver the pumping and white noise filled "We Get High From The Music" (feat Mr V) and the inimitable Danny Howells is always welcome - particularly with a track as electrifying as the recently released "Isolar".
Review: When Shlohmo first released Bad Vibes on Friends Of Friends, back in 2011, the album and the sounds contained within it felt fresh and provocative. The style ran in parallel with the emergence of post-dubstep, and worked well alongside the works of producers like James Blake, but it was very much its own thing, an experimental sort of nu-jazz that is still sounding game-changing today. This reissue is a fifth anniversary edition, and it's as vast and majestic as we remember it; with twenty-three tracks to lose yourself in, Shlohmo provides a wonderfully curated palette of moods and artistic directions, from lo-fi broken beat, through to glitchy, instrumental hip-hop, and plenty of explorative ambient. It's a mood album, one that must be heard in its entirety, and surely up there with the likes of Caribou's Swim or Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma. Excellent.
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