REVIEWS KILLERS
THE CUTTING-EDGE RELEASES YOU NEED IN YOUR LIFE
Gadi Mizrahi Mock & Toof
‘Can’t Stop This Feeling’ ‘Farewell To Wendo EP’
Simple Tiny Sticks
myspace.com/simplerecordsuk myspace.com/mockandtoof
Sometimes, all you need is a Tremendously promising Lon-
sick bassline. Case in point doners Mock & Toof take it up
with Wolf + Lamb alumni Gadi a gear for this ambitious EP.
Mizrahi’s newie for Simple. Known for tracks on DFA, here
Rolling out in heavily percus- they depart from the disco
sive, stripped back house keys, and old school house typecasting, and deliver two dropping them into a bub-
fashion, dripping funk from gospel-infl ected vocal tones. avant-pop, Oriental exotica- bling bath of 303s, and tough
every pore, when the squelch- Solid mixes from Lee Curtiss tinged tracks that couldn’t be Chicago claps ‘n’ snares, this
ing, bad-ass electro bass (spare, minimal funk) and more different. But the real is devastating. Primitive
comes into earshot, expect Sideshow (dubwise), too. reason we’re here is Kink & power + futuristic production
nothing less than pande- Neville Watson’s out-of-this- = bonafi de KILLER.
monium. Elsewhere, ‘Who’s world acid house remix of the
Gonna Love Me Tonight?’ title track. Taking cut-up vo-
turns the dark off and gives cal samples from the original,
us gorgeous, Roy Ayers jazz
Hot Chip Pangaea
‘One Life Stand (Carl Craig ‘Pangaea EP’
Remix)’ Hessle Audio
Parlophone
myspace.com/journeytopangaea
myspace.com/carlcraig
Carl Craig re-rubs seem to be Few tracks, or producers,
in plentiful supply at the mo- have quite captured the
ment. Though always good, imagination recently as much
there hasn’t been anything up as Pangaea has. The future
to the standard of his remix garage creator, whose tracks
of Junior Boys’ ‘Like A Child’ disco licks of the source track ‘Router’ and ‘Memories’ ac- to match, ‘Sunset Yellow’
for a while. Until now, that to blow the roof off. True quired instant classic status, will appeal to Joy Orbison’s
is. Transforming the Chip’s excellence. The Joris Voorn and got DJs from Nic Fanciulli many fans, and ‘Why’, with its
alternately plaintive and mix is cool, too. to Hot Chip excited, steps it catchy organ riff and trippy
celebratory electro pop into a up a notch with this tremen- female vox, is another club
steely master-class of tension dous dispatch from another cruncher.
and release, Craig ratchets beat dimension. ‘Because
up the pressure with dark, Of You’ is all jazz-licked,
menacing technoid synths, bass-dipped atmospheres,
before introducing the looped with chattering, broken beats
VITAL LABEL
Who’s behind it? and Variance refl ects that,”
Tech house DJ/producer says McHugh. “We’ve
Jamie McHugh. released tracks and remixes
from Darren Emerson, AN2,
What does the label sound Raudive, Perc, Burnski,
like? Camea, Tom Pooks, Jonas
“I’m into everything from Kopp, Audio Soul Project
myspace.com/variancerecordings
downtempo stuff to techno and Gary Beck. Most of
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