Brackles / Rawkus

Planet Mu

Following his LHC 12-inch on Planet Mu, Brackles steps up once again with two adventurous, Day-Glo tracks shamelessly built to drive people mad on the dancefloor. This new single recalls the eclectic nature of Brackles' DJ sets and his love of two-step garage. "Rawkus" pits funky, galloping drums against smeary synths and bassy, old-school bleeps, dropping in the occasional cut-up vocal sample as a nod to two-step. It's held together in a seriously drunken manner, evoking Detroit masters Derrick May or Kenny Larkin at their best. "Air Pie" sounds like standard dubstep after a few espressos. Nervy and energetic, its stop-start rhythms also harken back to two-step, but the claps are pure grime and Brackles builds the track in a way borrowed directly from prime-time techno.

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