Cristian Vogel and Jamie Lidell's Super_Collider project return s with a sophomore album of crisp click-house and soulful tech-funk.
Recorded in Barcelona, where Vogel's based, Brighton and Berlin (where Lidell resides) the production values are intricate and crammed with intensity and texture which makes it unsurprising to find Mathew Herbert's opted to guest on a track here.
Lidell apparently took his inspiration for vocals from Marvin Gaye and Prince and he does a reasonable prince-like soft mumble on the superbly offbeat 'Closetails' and the sparse open-spaced click funk of 'Bugtrakin'.
On 'Gravityrearranging' his cue comes form Gaye and again it's an accomplished performance that takes the style while not attempting to mimic.
The rhythm arrangements are kept to a head-nodding tempo while they fire off spluttering off beat progressions, to superb effect on 'Soilysoul' and 'Radianationa On The Rise'.
Constantly pushing things to the edge, it would have been surprising if this hadn't fallen off at some points, which it does at the beginning of 'In The Beams'. But even then, when the track gets going it's a great example of how to take Sly Stone into the 21st Century.
