Cooly G - Up In My Head / Phat Si

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5...according to our Ant on Thu 12 Aug, 2010.

This sounds great from the offset with a big stomping kick and sweeping hi-hats, the rhythm is itchy and some big UK funky marching snares kick in along with a gnarly little riff and a fat bassline (no surprises there) then some big bleepy off kilter melody arrives in the mix and we have a powerful DJ tool that's a real future-step winner. 'Phat Si' on the B-side' takes a slightly more traditional garage route with soulful vocals and a dreamy almost melancholic feel with a slow and slinky groove working through the offbeat rhythm. A nice little number but the A-side is the stealer for me. An absolute cracker.

Since her debut EP for Hyperdub early last year, which won accolades and acclaim everywhere from the Guardian to Mixmag to Music Week, Cooly G has become firmly established as an in-demand DJ, producer and remixer, touring the world, and remixing top ten acts. She is also about to launch her own label Dub Organizer, with the first release imminent, and is currently starting work on an album for Hyperdub. Yet with all that merit to her name, this is “only” her second proper Hyperdub single, and third release in total including ‘Weekend Fly’, her side of last summer’s ‘Hyperdub 5.5’ EP shared with Mala from Digital Mystikz. Side A is the utterly dreamy ‘Up In My Head’, a blissful track built around her own vocals, lush jazzy chords and pulsing drums that sound like a never ending build up. Side AA is the frantic swirling drama of ‘Phat Si’, where drums and abstract bleeps and stabs snake around each other over tough as leather drums and throbbing bass.

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