Dubble D aka Moodymanc has always been a killer producer, a stint as the drummer in 2020 Soundsystem flanked by a career as a producer with more pseudonyms than the Tories have issues to blame on immigrants. That versatility is evidenced here with this four tracker which sees England’s lord of oddball house Luke Solomon gift one version for a gloriously well paced EP.
‘Comfort Me’ does as the title suggests, a lush sensuous house track which envelopes slowly and brings a bit of hip shaking calm to the dancefloor. ‘War and Peace’ is a bit more up tempo, a deftly filtered breakdown with a gorgeous yearning male vocal that takes an eternity to appear, replete with a clutch of nice touches including a faint saxophone, soft keys and lovely drum fills. Solomon gets to grips with the same track on his re-edit, adding that trademark robot funk and the flange on overdrive that eschews the vocal and just goes mental. Proper great wig out shit.
his trousers lined with bags of jack to bring forward a savage ensemble of redux bumpty bump that brings the hip wiggling sound of the turn of the century bang up to date. The moneyshot is ‘Hashtag’, which leaves a scratchy, rough and ready skittering groove just begging you to move, welding over the top a killer sample from Snoop Dogg’s TV show where the Long Beach rapper and G Unit are lamenting how everyone sounds the same in hip hop before . If you cut in half it’d bleed Derrick Carter, it’s that good. A brilliant release.
5 out of 5
Reviewed by Autocycle
