Mudd’s “Claremont 56” long player may be exposing the Rong label in all the
right places right now, yet it’s a label that’s been a firm choice for
anyone looking for sexy, housed-up under the radar beats since it’s
beginnings back in 2003. Artists like the afore noted Mudd, Chicken Lips,
Ray Mang, Munk, Stranger and Triangle Orchestra have helped along the way,
supplying the label with the kind of dubbed-out percussive spacejams and
lush rhythmic interludes it’s become synonymous with. Rong’s own DJ Spun
pulls together a warped cosmic groove with selected cuts from the
backcatalogue, rewired disco punk madness that, even with it’s obvious NY
sass, never overheats or gets lost in the myriad of drum patterns – check
the delerious “Cerebral Tremelo” from Kaos, Lee Douglas’ “Our Song”, and
Tussle’s classic “Disco D’Oro” . CD2 digs further into the label’s past,
serving full length (unmixed) versions of deleted classics like Barfly’s
“Heavy”, DJ Harry’s “Aquarium Man” and Brennan Greene’s alternate edit of
“Cerebral Tremelo”. Rong – you know it’s right on the money.
5 Out Of 5
Reviewed By: DARREN WALL
