Roy Ayers Kerri Chandler
Good Vibrations

Almost a decade on from his classic album ‘Noi No’, NYC’s Madteo runs amock on Honest Jon’s with nine tracks of groove graffiti, scrawling on disco, hip hop, house and garage styles with inimitably thrifty, freehand tekkers. Mixing deadly cool and charmingly frazzled dance tracks in his patented rug-cutting fashion, this is 'club music' but with an abundance of detail and chicanery that will come to light with headphones and home listening. It's batshit crazy, bargain-bin yahtzee and absorbingly brilliant.

Venice native musician Gigi Masin self-released two modestly pressed LPs 'Wind' (1986) and 'Wind Collector' (1991), neither of which gained any sales or awareness. Seemingly by word of mouth, his music has recently developed into something of a cult following. Masin's productions are intricate, deeply emotive and contemplative and sometimes include sparse and hypnotic looping compositions that could be paralleled to early Detroit Techno. Music From Memory has compiled over 30 years of work from the mid-1980s, including 17 unreleased cuts. This is electronic music from the soul.

MAJOR TIP! 17 varied re-works of classic Funkadelic cuts from Detroit's top producers across three slabs of wax... Highlights come thick and fast, from the deep house/P-funk fusion of Alton Miller's take on "Get Your Ass Off and Jam" and Andres' loose, hip-hop influenced revision of "Music For My Mother", to the thrusting loops and heady late-night hypnotism of Anthony Shake Shakir and T-Dancer's version of "Standing on the Verge". While many of the versions stay relatively faithful to the original, the more "out-there" interpretations - see BMG's outer-space ambient dub of "Maggot Brain" and Moodymann's epic revision of "Cosmic Slop" - are also consistently impressive. Yesss to this!