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Bangs & Works Volume 2
VARIOUS ARTISTS (planet mu)
Release date: 08.12.2011
Music Style: Dubstep
Article No.: 1736982 / ZIQ310LP
Last year Planet Mu released 'Bangs & Works Volume1'. It was a carefully curated, first of its kind compilation of Chicago footwork, a style of music which is possibly some of the most genuinely future-facing, innovative new electronic music on the planet. Simon Reynolds recently noted in an interview for his book Retromania that "one thing I thought was really innovative was all this stuff from Chicago, the footwork stuff ... one of the few things in recent years that has made my jaw drop a little bit [is] the ‘Bangs & Works’ CD. Mike Paradinas deserves a knighthood." Since the release of that album the attention paid to this little known local scene has increased drastically, so much so that Planet Mu were able to bring over DJs Rashad and Spinn plus footwork dancers for a tour of the UK and Europe. The music has been adapted for different uses by people outside Chicago, and has influenced new productions not only by Planet Mu artists such as Machinedrum and Kuedo, but by many others as well. 'Bangs & Works Volume 2' brings the focus back onto Chicago's own producers, showing where the real innovation in the scene still lies. The album attempts to show different sides of footwork to Volume 1. Where the first compilation showed off some of the more hallucinatory and leftfield elements, Volume 2 has a wider remit, covering mad techno-style tracks such as DJ Metro's 'Tekno Bangz' or DJ T-Why’s immense ‘Juice’ and ‘Finished’, to tracks that sound like Musique Concrete gone footwork, like Young Smoke’s 'Space Muzik Part 3' or tracks built around long forgotten europop songs, soul and hip hop. Tracks like Traxman’s 'Funky Block' and DJ Clent’s 'DJ Clent #1' display the obvious influence of flipping samples, hip hop style, to the rhythms of footwork, while DJ Rashad and Gant-Man’s amazing 'Heaven Sent' shows the influence of P-funk and Detroit’s hi-tech soul. Boylan’s ‘Bullet Proof Soul’ is a tender track of pitched-up and looped soul, giving the album a moment of strang
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