Here’s a rare DJ mix from LA-based producer Esteban Adame (part of the Ican hi-tech latin supergroup), an hour of bumping, bouncing and smiling goodness for your listening pleasure.
Day: January 27, 2010
VA – Ruf Kutz [RK01]
Having hit the ground running with his debut track as “Dirty” (one of our biggest tunes of 2009), Rufdug is back with some more music, this time under his edits moniker Ruf Kutz. This limited 12″ includes four storming cuts that have ‘essential’ written all over them. We kick off with “Sun After Rain”, an edit of a Salsoul Strings track that squeezes every ounce of vitamin D goodness onto the dancefloor. This is deep disco made for the sunrise. Another one that’ll go down a treat spun at 5am at a sun-bleached beach bar is “Solid Snake” – it’s a bongo-driven psychedelic guitar freak-out that just makes you want to take that hair out of the ponytail and shake it! The quality control keeps up high on the flipside as well, with the twisted beatdown bass antics of “Marvelous Nigz” – think ESG on tranqs! Last but definitely not least on this eclectic EP we have “Under The Hood” – another winner for hip hop heads. You might think the original has free jazz parentage, but you’d need to be looking in a krautrock direction to find the answer! ‘Downtempo dub-psyche headnod with extra echo’ says Ruf Kutz – and who are we to disagree! Essential with a big fat E!
Hieroglyphic Being – A Visitor from Someone Else’s Memories [MATH034]
Taken from last years ‘So Much Noise 2 Be Heard’ sessions, Jamal Moss delivers four tracks of killer idiosyncratic Chicago originals as only he can. The awesome ‘Ravished By The Truth’ is an essential, sounding like some proto-Millsian space expedition recorded onto VHS in 1988, followed by the spectral jazzjackin’ title track and the previously unreleased ‘Sacrifices Of The Heart’. This is Earth calling Jamal, keep up the good work, man!
The Hipodrome Of Music 