There is absolutely no regard for recessionary belt-tightening, musical boundaries or goat’s loincloths on Planet Mu. They just keep firing out genre-straddling tackle often roping together dubstep, minimal techno, chillout dub and old school strains on the same album – which conveniently brings us to new signing Drew Lustman of New York, who’s previously appeared on Ramp and the wonderfully-titled Napalm Enema Records. There are echoes of the beloved late 80s NY sound in the way Nu Groove sometimes went into fairly unhinged territory but also in the way the city’s traditional melting pot has always embraced forms such as hiphop, drum ‘n’ bass, funk and electronic foraging. A melancholy form of dreamy dubstep uncurls like somnambulant monitor lizard flatulence on ‘Our Loss’ while ‘Winter Sole’ plumbs the deepest techno u-bend. But every one of the 13 tracks uses different groove ingredients for the mood at hand, noticeably furthering the cause for a world without musical boxes to fine effect.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: KRIS NEEDS
