It’s no wonder that the Plump DJs have stacked up a pile of awards from the genres annual Breakspoll awards. Whether it be their own studio productions or their remix work, they always deliver jacking breakbeat of the highest order.
When the first track on this finger lickin release ‘Best Believe Us’ begins you would be forgiven if you thought you were listening to Orbital live at Glastonbury as the old skool synth pads float over the roar of the crowd. The slightly slower start is just a smokescreen as the award winning ‘System Addict’ kicks in with it’s familiar growling bassline. There are also shades of funk here with ‘shifting gears’ and ‘lost in space’ the two vocal tracks on the album.
The relentless ‘Snake Eyes’ has the energy of a two year old chimp fed on a diet of red bull and blue smarties, absolutely unstoppable. ‘Intermission’, ‘Beat Myself Up’ and ‘Theme X’ are the type of tracks Daft Punk would have been making had they been raised in the grimy east end of London as opposed to the tree lined streets of Paris. But with tracks such as ‘Disco Unusual’ with it’s lush breakdowns and the stabbing sounds of ‘Rocket Soul’ that the boys come into their own.
This is a fine collection of tracks with varying tempos and styles but all built around the breakbeat core that the Plumps have always believed in.
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