Review: For a retrospective label with a contemporary touch, Chiwax constantly delivers the goods. This time they've employed Dance Mania artist DJ Deeon to provide some crude drums, vocals, and bootylicous basslines. On the A-side we have two tracks, the first, "Happy", sounds like a jacked-up, 909 reshuffle of a Afrika Bambaataa jam, while "The Truth" sees a monophonic tone sequence play out over soul-sleazy lyrics - the "Truthstamental" is the same, only without out the cheeky spoken words. Rolling percussion and computer bleeps set sail on "R U Sure", in a track with snare snaps like Robert Hood with the added nu-skool ghetto house of something Delroy Edwards might produce, while "Gigabytes" slams down the 8-bit techno, hard.
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