Mr Mark Pember is not the sort to sit on his laurels. Over the last couple of years he has not only unleashed an album ('Off The Bone') and a host of solid tracks under his Meat Katie moniker, but he has started a succesful new label (Whole Nine Yards) and written an album for R & S as Avenue A.
Having already marked himself out as an open minded producer who can happily switch between 4/4 and breakbeat styles, he here delivers another solid MK construction. Given his previous releases Rotten.com, Strange Fruit, Lapdance it's no surprise to find that this LP once straddles both the house and the breaks scenes.
And why not when you can easily build decent tracks in both styles? The four to the floor tracks that exist here, such as Steppin Up, Dirty South, Our Destruction and Missing Something are typical Pember productions; big, unsubtle chunks of dancefloor seeking house music that possess a steely energy and stacks of fat, groovesome bass.
On the breaks side, Pember seems to have a kind of fascination with the seedier side of life with titles like Lapdance, Rotten.com, Bring Yourself (off again) and Work Ya Body. Needless to say, these cuts also breath a kind of sexy, bass-heavy funk.
Perhaps the best word to describe this album is solid. There's no mistaking that Pember's tracks are aimed squarely at moving people on the floor, and with such an irresistible, chugging sound, it'd take an utterly soulless groover to refuse them. The only criticism would be that with the notable exception of the filmic title track at the end - there's not enough levity here to make it a home listening LP. That said, you could always slip it on just before you roam out into the night in search of more booty-shaking bass.
