Review: Given Opolopo's impressive track record over the last decade check his releases on Especial Records, Local Talk, Swedish Brandy and Sick Trumpet for proof. You'd expect this outing on Z Records to be rather tasty and of course it is, with Colonel Red collaboration "The Best" delivering a killer chunk of house-tinged contemporary electrofunk. Full of vintage-sounding synths, classic percussion touches, clipped guitars and wonderful vocals, it's a soulful delight. "Get On Up" is almost as good, offering up a breezy blend of piano house, undulating synth bass and late '80s US garage flourishes. It's the sound of summer - for those enjoy their music warm, positive, synth-heavy and soulful, at least.
Review: Bump Machine Bass have pulled a serious gem out with this latest two tracker, which sees the wonderful sounds of The Colonel join forces with Yemi Bolatiwa for two tracks of garage-inspired fire. We begin with a joyous display on 'Gettin' Down', which sees those classic soulful vocals from Yemi brought to the forefront for an extremely catchy showdown, letting loose a barrage of niche-style basslines below. To follow on from one of the strongest garage releases of the year so far, we then get to take in 'Hip Dip', a much more minimal display which focuses on glitchy chord riffs, tidy percussive taps and sweeping basslines below for a much calmer display, over which we hear Yemi's vocals slowly emerge for a wicked sign off!
Review: It's time to pull on your dancing shoes as we welcome the Colonel and Don Amoz in collaboration to the Bump Machine Bass imprint for an extremely fun new single, full of flavour and vim. We hear the pair combines high energy horn riffs, warbling LFO structures and minimal drum work to give us a certified dancefloor groover and a certified party starter entitled 'Rudeboy & Friends'. This one also comes complete with an additional Re-Flip version, working around more traditional 140BPM structures.
Review: Project Allout Records drops another filthy bunch of quasi-garage cuts from none other than The Colonel himself. Ranging from psychotic UK bass nastiness to dubby four-to-the-floor fare, this EP is strictly built for the dancefloor. Each tune has something to say about this man's qualities behind the desk, but our top pick has to be the title track; a refreshing twist of shuffling percussion and weighty low-end make it simply irresistible to shake your stuff to. Big!
Review: Lucian O'Neill aka The Colonel lands firmly upright on the excellent In:Flux Audio with a bunch of hybrid tracks spanning pretty much every UK genre to date. "Bad To The Bone", for instance, is a break-ridden, trombone-led piece of two-step magic, while "Where Are We going?" is a wobbly slice of UK garage surrounded by sci-fi melodies, and "Confused Face" takes grime and spins it around its neck to create a veritable slice of electronic fusion. A similar in-out through dubstep, grim and garage is reserved for "No We Don't" and the excellent "Dem Ah Holla" featuring JPoet on the ones and twos. This stuff's red hot, check it!
Review: Culled from their recent LP, Superconductor, Opolopo's "Candy Coated Perfection" has now been given an extra lease of life through a whole host of new mixes. They're nearly all by Prezzner, mind, but he's a really good remixer so it's all good. His Solar Dub may eschew the original's honeyed vocals but it's a killer slice of spacey leftfield disco. Elsewhere his Swingset mix appears to sample the sound of tennis racquets in a sleek, linear jack-a-thon, and the DeejayKul Meets Soultechnic rework of "The Best' is a delicious slice of deep n' jazzy soulful house.
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