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b tracks - flightless - supply records - vinyl

New Copy

Genre: House

1. Down
2. Heavy Skies
3. Flightless
4. Discrete Time
5. Plateau

Another storming, ranging EP from the New Yorkers: heavy-duty machine funk for the dancefloor, charged and swinging with old-school Chicago vibes. LTD 12 - check!

The A-side house bobs from tearaway to discofied to rawly jaunty; the flip from dug-in and twisted to a more wide-open excursiveness.

To start, the soulful rug-cutter Down runs a sublimated tribalism beneath lovely, dubwise kick drums and sultry female vocal; Heavy Skies is lo-fi funk, a stand-out; the bass and brilliant percussion-work of the title track crosses US garage with new UK styles (a little Joy O to its bottom end).

Discreet Time meshes vintage Chicago drum programming with the filtered house of someone like I:Cube; and to close, Plateau, a widescreen, experimental bubblers, with reaching FX'd synths and shuffling snares and hi-hats...