Scuba - The Hope

I am DanceBrian (tm) today. I just found out Orbital have been lined up to headline my fave festival this Summer in Lancashire, I've never had the opportunity to see the headtorch sporting egghead boffins so I'm super-stoked to learn of this tremendous news. Scuba is one of those guys who's always getting ranted about, I tend to like approximately half his material and be indifferent to the other half. Another of those guys, much like Martyn, who seems to morph chameleon-like throughout electronic genres. 'The Hope' is a pulsating thudder of a techno breakbeat track with a catchy vocal hook and loads of skyscraping euphoric synths. It doesn't sound particularly groundbreaking but is a sure-fire dancefloor slugger with a hefty bass throb. 'Flash Addict' is more my thing with an insistent techno strut and lots of gorgeous hypnotic hollow clinking/chinking effects circling above all Detroit style. It's a proper cosmic beaut is this, far more engaging and deep than the more commercial 'A' side. Worth it for that track alone methinks.