Juno Recommends Breakbeat June 2021

Review:  Breakbeat Paradise inaugurated their Toxic Funk series last year and did so with big, hard hitting mash up sand reworks of classics. Now they keep up the fierce and fiery sounds with two new killers from Crash Party. 'Dirty Glass' is all raw drums and raw, high speed funk feels and celebratory trumpet stabs. 'World Gone Def' is a more deep cut, boom-bap track with fat bass and plenty of attitude in the vocals.

Review: Like his brother DJ Sotofett, DJ Fett Burger is not a producer you can 'second-guess'. On one release, you might get surging techno or outer-space ambient, while on another it could be analogue acid house or throbbing machine-disco. On 'Ephemeral Lightspeed', he adds punchy, crunchy breakbeats to a swirling ambient techno soundscape whose trippy and wide-eyed quality is confirmed by the Norwegian producer's accompanying 'Beatless Version'. On the flipside two friends of the Sex Tags family deliver their interpretations. First LNS re-imagines the track as a bouncy, keyboard stab-sporting electro treat, while the Snorre Magnar Solberg revision is a bonkers-but-brilliant, high-octane acid breakbeat rush-a-thon.

Review: REPRESS: Berlin's Steffen Laschinski aka Rising Sun is back on his own Kristofferson Kristofferson imprint, and the fiery deep house producer returns with two explorative cuts that will surely resonate with fans of Shed and his High Power sound. "Yours" is filled with slamming breaks from start to finish and, although this is categorised as house music, we prefer to think of it as effective breakbeat for the DJ wanting to deviate a little from the 4/4 norm. On the B-side, "Importance (Essay)" takes all our attention thanks to its bass-less percussive form; what we love about the tune is its freedom of movement and total neglect for anything tool-related.