This month hear the latest from Night Slugs' Bok Bok, the urgent sounds of Air Max 97, and MGUN, one of the best of Detroit's current dance crop
The influence of juke, ghetto house's coiled yet funky mutation, continues to eke its way across the world even as far as Melbourne where Air Max 97 resides. The style's rumble-strip bass judders underneath his track Progress and Memory. This remix from Neana takes it back round the globe to Chicago, with juke's relentless snares scampering with demonic industry in perfect 4/4 time. A two-note melody is pure urgency, like the theme to an emergency services TV drama starring DJ Earl as a maverick surgeon. With the new album from scene originator Traxman taking juke to previously unthinkable new heights of glorious, pointillist weirdness, the rest of the world is still catching up but making some dancefloor bombs in the process.
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by Ben Beaumont-Thomas via Electronic music | The Guardian
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