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Brackles makes a swift return to Planet Mu with another 12" for disc jockeys to mash up the dancefloors with 'Rawkus'. I must confess to not really feeling the first tune. Don't get me wrong it aint bad at all.... Ooh hang on it's changed gear, and what a cheeky little tune it is too. The beats are a well constructed from a solid garage template, there's some early 90's style bleeps and stabs in there and then some quirky/ wonk synths. There's even a wee Prince vocal sample in there. The flipside 'Air Pie' is a kind of garage/grime techno cross pollination/ hybrid jobber. Again I like the bleeps here and the beats shuffle along in a dark grimey style. Hey I was listening to Hot Butter - Popcorn the other day. What a tune that is. Could it be the first ever bleep tune? Anyway I'm not blown away but this guy's stuff is good fun for sure.* Following on swiftly from the ‘LHC’ 12 on Planet Mu, Brackles steps up once again with two dayglo , adventurous tracks that are shamelessly built for making people dance like mad.
* This 12 and the first ep show a seriously fun direction for Brackles’ music that hint at a craft learnt from the eclectic nature of his dj sets and his love of 2-step garage.
* The first track ‘Rawkus’ does this by pitting galloping funky drums against smeary synths and bassy old school bleeps, carefully dropping in the occasional cut up vocal sample as a nod to 2-step. It all ingeniously holds together albeit in a seriously drunken manner, evoking Detroit masters Derrick May or Kenny Larkin at their best.
* ‘Air Pie’ is a track that sounds like standard dubstep after a few expressos. Its stop start rhythms hark back to 2- step but the claps are pure grime and the way the track builds is something he’s learnt from prime time techno. Two thrilling tracks that take the dubstep sound in new directions.
* Tracklist: A: RAWKUS B: AIR PIE
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