France’s 20-year-old Surkin certainly doesn’t come from a house or disco background, growing up loving hiphop then easing into Chicago house through its ghetto-tech. His 2006 debuts ‘Ghetto Obsessions EP’ and ‘Radio Fireworks’ caused a stir in the loins of the main movers and masses. Since then there’s been a Japan-only mini-album, Action Replay, remix EP of ‘Fireworks’ and now a third EP, which is cool as a duck’s bottom. The title track is a departure featuring a vocal with spiritual similarities to Hacienda euphoria and Inner City’s ‘Big Fun’, although there’s no way he can have known these things! There’s also a fierce cut-up of this track from Todd Edwards. ‘White Knight Two’ hoists early 90s trouser-blaster motifs slashed with Mayday strings. ‘Kid Gloves’ plants nasty Patrick Cowley-style sequences up the tradesman’s entrance of some strobey rave riffs rounding off a belter of package from a genuinely hot new talent.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: Kris Needs
