There’s never a dull moment in listening to a Moda Black Sampler and this is no exception. Running the gauntlet from gentle disco loops to scared of the dark tech house tearers, Moda Black Volume 3 pt 2 is very much the full cream and powdered chocolate topping to part 1’s Syrossian, J&AG, Alexis Raphael and Nathan Barato blended coffee. Sidney Charles ‘Wax Digger’ is a Mack Daddy shoot with an Isaac Hayes attitude and Armando’s ‘Phuture’ sounding snares. The bass is so rotund it could outplump Vanessa Feltz’s curves, then add a psychedelic organ, some megaphone delivered spoken vocals and it’s all about the psychoacidrave bounce from thereon in. DJ W !ld’s remix of Jaymo and Andy George’s ‘Remember’ is full of sticky, sloppy kisses from someone who is failing miserably to hold their hip thrusting, four to the floor hump action down. It’s no wonder that police sirens blaze throughout. Mambo resident, Jason Bye’s ‘Everybody Jump On the Record’ is built around a sax loop, sniffing snares and a dope hip hop chat. M.A.N.I.K deals the winning tech house hand with ‘Wickbush’ which revolves around a sound that bounces like a super ball in a heated wind tunnel and makes you fight and fail showing your winner’s smile. Mia Dora’s eerie, cavernous heart-beat and classical piano / opera driven excursion is like looking at the echo of your unborn only to find that it is waltzing to the melody and pirouetting in time to the beat like a real life music box ballerina. It’s begging to be the theme tune to a Dexter, Luther or True Blood type psycho-thriller and is an underground tech house EP that keeps on giving.
4 out of 5
Reviewed By Paulette
