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g303 wrote on Wed, 06 Mar 96 21:45:29 GMT :

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> > Out soon. > > WAP71 [2x12"] RAC: _Structures_ dancefloor + more.

Also to be available on 8-track CD if this promo is anything to go by. 8 tracks totalling nearly 49 minutes I'm listening to this on crappy mini speakers so I'm not exactly getting "the full effect", but here goes. Variously Funky, electroey, technoey, all clean and sharp, and all very very tasty. They've taken the best (imo) of their style further, and eased away from the sound of some of the slightly ploddier housier tracks on their earlier EPs. Track one bounces along funkily, with a nod to some of the early purple WARP releases perhaps, a whispery "chew-ay" sample and some nagging piercing tweeter-tweeking noises. No.2 has a more mellow, ambient kinda feel. Detroit-ish strings join a pattery rhythm to start with. It's got that echoey rimshot sound you sometimes hear, which I really love, takes me back to the early chicago house stuff. A bouncy bass thing twists in and out and it gets quite electroey for a while before the strings come back. Track 3 is a repetitive mechanical affair, maybe along the lines of an easier-going Jeff Mills - hard to tell from the sound here:(. Not the strongest track on the EP, but good nonetheless and one to drop in the mix on the dancefloor. Track 4 aims a little more towards the head, but still allows the feet to keep tapping (one constant factor on here, along with the quality level). Syncopated rhythms and an open soundscape, with those lovely low scrapey sort of noises they've used before. 5 is fast and lush, with a phased strings effect and a very funky rhythm, and I think a little spoken sample which I can't make out, if that's what it is. Clanking rhythms, pattering metallic percussion and a hollow "drain" b-line are joined by various effects and breakdowns for track 6. The seventh track is a bouncy baby with a kinda soca feel, lots of carribbean kinda noises fused onto a 4/4 techno beat, and it avoids being at all cheesey. Then they throw in their most downtempo track so far (c100bpm) as track 8. And a bit of a treat it is too. So if you like RAC's older stuff, or you like funky clean-cut danceable techno anyway, go for it! J ^ __________ ________.__/_____ _||_/ James Skilton aka Steady J _[]/_____________[.__\____-_ DJ and Party Animal | | Part Time Hedonist |____________________________| Full Time Technohead |__|-' '-|__| Steady-J@Firefox.co.uk