HUNEE Vinyl & CDs

Review: The Dekmantel Anniversary series has proved as popular to date as you'd expect with contributions from Messrs Lone, Morphosis, Awanto 3 and Juju & Jordash. Round three arrives and you guessed it, the standards have been maintained with Hunee and Hundred20 representing either side of a delightful lime green twelve inch. Hundred20 is of course the musical endeavour betwixt Dani Plessow and his studio sparrer Felix Bergleiter, and "Minke Whale Congregation" is filled with typical MCDE flourishes such as the Raw Cuts style drums, though there is also a nice crumbled edge to the track's textural qualities. With the exciting news of a forthcoming debut album from Berlin resident Hunee still cascading around our collective mindset, "The Lowest Animal" cranks up the anticipation further - occupying the guttural end of smudged out analogue body music in the opening moments before revealing several new rattling layers of mind altering, body jacking potential.

Review: It's been some six years since Hun Choi made his debut on William Burnett's WT Records imprint. In that time, he's proved incredibly hard to pin down. This debut album for Rush Hour seems designed to continue that trend, offering a series of warm, melodious and curiously Balearic cuts that defy easy categorization. Sure, there are dancefloor-focused moments - see the cacophonous, Detroit-influenced hustle of "Error of the Average", the deep acid madness of "Silent Sensations" and the classic deep house bounce of "Desire" - but also a range of downtempo and ambient jams that arguably impress more. Of these, it's "The World" - a humid exercise in tropical drums, twittering flutes and looped vocal samples - and the sublime, string-laden "Bruises" that really stand out.