new in at boomkat. check the link for cover artwork: http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?merchID=10261 "WHY SHEEP?" / RECLOOSE Earthborn Third Ear 12" // £ 5.99 Mysterious cult electronic figures do the right thing on their new record for Third Ear, the japanese home of the Detroit beatdown community. Extra special is the `mix this up with your dodgy old records' artwork, parodying the JAMMS/KLF sleeve. 'Earthborn' is a distinctly insane brew from the latterday Yellow Magic Orchestra members, blending some rowdy chanting, and more changes than the dollar rate, over an extended kind of open-ended funk workout. But flip for the juice and its the Planet E man RECLOOSE saying it all here. Beginning with a monster groove of a conga and funk bassline, reminiscent of his monster tune 'I Can't Take It', Matthew Chicoine builds chopped vocal into a wicked cut up of the mighty, old skool Bambaata set staple 'Computer Games' by the YMO themselves, and it just rocks - just one utterly cool piece of floorfilling acumen. People will see the sleeve and think, i don't remember Jimmy Cauty and Bill Drummond being q-u-i-t-e-t-h-i-s-f-u-n-k-y. Clubbed to Death reprise the echoes of 'Fade to grey' ringing in our ears from last week, and the mood is curiously 1990 all of a sudden. Acid again then and pretty well the kitchen sink thrown in, but its for the boss Recloose mix this will be remembered. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup