Funkystepz - Trouble EP

Funkystepz return to Hyperdub, their debut 12” ‘Fuller’ /  ‘Hurricane Riddim’ having detonated dancefloors earlier this year. It's rare to find an act who's name describes so functionally what their intention is and how they are going to get there, and heir ruff but complex productions and DJ sets are incredible at raising energy and getting bodies moving in a way that so much modern dancefloor music just doesn't. These three tracks are straight up dancefloor destroyers, almost overloaded with energy. 'Trouble' is exactly that; with martial stomping kick drums, whistles, a tough, infectious melody line, and chords like a skidding car, this tune is built to bounce to. ‘Dirty Dutch’ has structure that breaks down and breaks up again, playing question and answer between a twilight zone style melody, a wiggly, scratched in test-tone, a grime-styled violin melody, and rapid-fire drums and claps. 'John Wayne' is so bow-legged that it almost falls over, made of loose, galloping drums with a backward drunken melody and skippy snares, a hilarious repetition of the words 'John Wayne', a rollin sub, and a spacey breakdown. It's really fun, strangely surreal and massively compelling on the dancefloor.

Tracks:

A. Trouble   AA1. Dirty Dutch   AA2. John Wayne

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