Neil Landstrumm - Empire On A Fiver EP

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4...according to our Brett on Wed 15 Apr, 2009.

I thought about half of Lord for £39, the last Neil Landstrumm album, was dead good and about half was Bilbo Bobbins so how will his Empire On a Fiver EP stack up? Let us find out! First of all, it seems pretty clear to me that he's just dicking about and having fun with all the dubstep wobble and that so I'm not gonna criticise him for it, especially since it rears its head reasonably infrequently on this 12" with just a few little wobbz on lead track 'The Godfathers 560'. As usual he's got his fingers in many of Greggs' wares, be they techno pies, electro pasties, hip-hop cakes or R 'n' B baps so if you're in the market for a beaty trip through Genre City with a bit of a pretend Scando leg end give this three tracker a crack.. Especially for the remix he does of Rustie's 'Jagz the Smack', it's a bit of a technoid beaut!

A weighty co-production from Stuffrecords and Scandinavia, reaching across the M8 barricades for a rare show of sub-lo unity between Glasgow and Edinburgh. Think of this as the 12” accompaniment to Landstrumm’s acclaimed 'Lord for £39' album on Planet Mu. The two original tracks - 'The Godfathers 560' and 'The Race' - are influenced by slow n' low 80s Miami Bass and twisted R&Bisms, as signature Jupiter 8 lead melodies with real TR808 beats carve out the heritage the Def Jam NYC sound. The final track see's Landstrumm doffing his flat cap to Rustie with his long awaited remix of the classic ‘Jagz The Smack’, a fry-up of parts from that now classic platter combined with the restless energy of a Landstrumm live jam.

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