In a bizarre world where Andy Gray is a deep house nut instead of a Phil Collins buff, even he couldn't help but be impressed by this latest twelve from the first lady of beatdown, aka Lady Blacktronika. In the great tradition of Detroit beatdown, "Black Girl" in both its slomo and deep house variants is seeping with musical emotion and rich textures. It's perhaps the lolloping throb of the slomo version that impresses the most, thanks to the woozy pads and intricate layers of crunchy percussion that form the basis of the track which combine brilliantly with the surfeit of looped up vocal samples. Matching this is the B Side brilliance of "The E's Have It", a constantly building sludgy chugger underpinned by gradually rising strains of machine funk head f*ck.
