Various
‘Lost My Dog Miami Music Sampler’
(Lost My Dog)
Usually I pounce on new Lost My Dog product like a horny terrier on an upturned bitch-on-heat’s bottom but I’ve just had an ankle operation and the promo pile has swelled to drastic proportions over the last few weeks. Hence, doing a three-in-one to try and catch up with the high-quality tackle relentlessly firing from the mighty Lost My Dog’s nether-regions since last month. South African three-piece Bang Bang take a 2020 Soundsystem approach of marrying heady house catharsis using live elements alongside the machines, uncorking a propulsive, NY-flavoured roller topped with squelch riffs and Ruegroove’s classy vocals. Comes with a robust set of remixes from France’s Glom [dubby], label honcho Pete Dafeet [vocal beautifully up front], Yes [slow and low vocal and dub treatments], Sean Smith [spacey with jazz piano splashes] and Bang Bang themselves bumping things up.
South London’s Tom Lown debuts on the label in fine style with a sparse Nu Groove icicle riffs topping a simple, insidious groover boasting unexpected psychedelic drop with lysergic starbursts. If that wasn’t enough, the mighty Harold Heath comes in to drape the track in lush new riffage and strings, swirling further to paradise. Then there’s two more tracks: ‘And Again’ massaging the mole’s velvet cod-piece with cool deliberation and ‘The Return’ even exceeding that for deepness of the first degree.
Most recent is the about-to-be-released Miami sampler – a taste of LMD whoopee to come with Bleep District’s funky, bumpy ‘Don’t Stop Now’, the singing goat on Glom’s ‘In Love’, Yse and Frank Carter III’s NY ’89-style ‘Guessing Games’ and Danny Stott trading as Roland Nights on ‘Phazz’, which is mixed into a racey throbber by Belgium’s Vernon and DaCosta. Much cocking of the leg inevitable in the next few months as these will all come with the customary remixes. What a label!
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
