REVIEWS KILLERS
THE CUTTING-EDGE RELEASES YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE
Sebastien Tellier Riton & Seiji
‘L’amour Et La Violence/Fin- ‘Computer Juice’
gers of Steel (Remixes)’ Turbo Recordings
Lucky Number
myspace.com/ritontime
luckynumbermusic.com
French love walrus Sebastien Restless genre chameleon
gets remixed to within an inch Riton teams up with Bugz In
of his velvet gloves by two of The Attic’s Seiji for an EP on
2010’s potential hotshots. electro darling Tiga’s Turbo
Penguin Prison tackle ‘Fingers Recordings. Sound interest-
of Steel’, confl ating cosmic beautiful jazz-infl ected elec- ing? Damn straight it is. and bleep meltdown bar-
disco and shredded morsels tronic beat fest from ‘Fingers’, Coming on like a deranged miness. Bonkers but brilliant
of vintage Gallic touch house, with boogie synth swells, electronic mutant from big neo-acid breakbeat madness
with prodding, cut-up funk grand piano and ornate, beat’s more leftfi eld diver- at its best.
samples and live Chic-style trancey arpeggios, sounding sions (that’s a good thing by On the fl ip, ‘UK Div’ short-
guitar backing Seb’s cool not a million miles from his the way), ‘Computer Juice’ is circuits the syncopated shuf-
pipes. recent house corker ‘Vacuum a screaming breakbeat bomb fl e of UK funky with cheeky
Floating Points dons his enig- Boogie’. of iron-tough but organic bleep funk and machine growl
matic hat, and creates a funk, demented robo yelps groove. Seriously sick sounds.
Sub Focus Raffertie
‘Could This Be Real’ ‘7th Dimension/String
Ram Theory’
myspace.com/subfocus Planet Mu
planet-mu.com
When we fi rst heard the open- Birmingham-based Raffertie
ing bars of this, we thought used to make wobbly, noisy
we’d stupidly burnt our dubstep for the Annie Wack
favourite Sasha at Shelly’s crowd. No more: check this
set from ’91, rather than Sub exquisite blast of crunked-up
Focus’s latest smash. most exhilarating record of excellence. before dropping back down
Swapping his electro dee- the month. Like an old school hardcore to Earth for some digi crunk
bee vibes for the naïve, Also check Sub Focus’s own record travelling into the fu- crispness.
cascading ecstasy of piano d&b retouch for a taste of ture at the speed of light, via ‘String Theory’ is ethe-
house, Sub Focus’s blend of what an Omni Trio and Hazard wormhole, Raffertie trans- real, inter-dimensional
serotonin-surging pianos, collaboration might sound plants diva vox, MDMA as- portal transportation, with
hooky male vocals, monstrous like — delirious wobbly bass sisted, heart-swelling synths a soupçon of off-world funk
bass pythons and dramatic euphoria. Only the most mi- and computer blips onto a added. Anyone interested in
breakdowns make for the serly lips will fail to curl. rigid 4/4 house pattern, original music needs this.
on through Incognito’s jazz-funk Who’s playing it? What’s next? with remixes from Skream, The
remix of Shy FX & T Power’s ‘Feel- All the usual d&b heavyweights, The big one is Breakage’s second Nextmen and Shy FX. There’s
ing’. More recently, DSB has been dubstep titans like Skream, Ben- artist album ‘Foundation’ in also singles forthcoming from
blurring the bass boundaries ga, et al, but also the crossover March, as well as his single ‘Jus- Redlight, Benga, Rockwell and
further with tracks like Break- radio jocks like Zane Lowe, Annie tifi ed’. Also pushing the Digital System.
age’s ‘Clarendon’ and by signing Mac, Rob Da Bank, Eddy Temple- Soundboy template into new
music from Skream, Caspa, At- Morris and 1Xtra’s Mista Jam. territory will be the UK funky
tacca Pesante and Rusko. uprising of Donae’o’s ‘Riot Music’
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