The adventurous and sometimes downright experimental Rotter's Golf Club have pulled together a compilation of fine out-on-a-limb tracks.
It's machine funk alright - picture a minimalist background punctured by raw steel edges, gradually worn glass smooth by a throbbing liquid bass. This is electro, shaped and moulded by the force of funk.
It refuses to conform completely, and breaks out with its' own little quirks.
Most of the tracks are very accessible to the open minded, and quite dancefloor friendly. New R.G. C. signings, The Hold, offer up one of the best titles heard in a long time.
'You Can Take My Glowstick, But Don't Touch The White Glove' sounds as good as the name. It's electro flung over a house beat, and propelled along by a deep, rolling bassline.
Decal carry on with the four-to-the-floor on 'Giver', a very techy track, with a spacious groove.
Rude Solo pick up the pace with 'Slate Resk', and Frisch and Munter keep it going on 'Road Tested'.
Most unusual of the bunch is the skittery two-step 'Driver' from Aramchek. It's an odd hybrid of Latin / two-step rhythms fused with crisp electro, underscored with a pulsing bass.
There's so much thrown into the mix, but the definition and separation are spot on. This one breaks all the rules. Truly weird, but it works splendidly.
A Rotter's compilation wouldn't be complete, of course, without a Weatherall/Tenniswood track.
The Chairman (assume Weatherall) goes for plenty of bass twiddling and general technical tomfoolery on his mix of Radioactive Man's 'The Mezz'.
When all the chaos dies down, the bass is left alone to buzz and fuzz out into space, like some weird interplanetary signal. What a wonderful way to go.
