Juno Recommends Breakbeat: June 2024

Review: BufoBufo (Klasse Wrecks, Dream Ticket, Cabaret) and Qeta (Further Electronix, Wave Function, brokntoys) join forces for an eight track split LP, diving into aquatic synths, sliding breakbeats and amphibious atmospheres. A decidedly dreamy and watery album, 'Fascinating World' knows what it is: a captivating subaquatic exoplanet of vinyl-crackling trip-hop beats, ghostly synths, and deep ascensions (or are they descensions?) into evermore abyssal netherworlds. A dialectical record, with each artist taking on a track each before also collaborating on one cut per side, we're more than impressed at this pair's ability to lay down a coherent sound-vision, despite their vacillation between two solo productive poles.

Review: Breakbeat means many different things to many different people but in the case of this new EP from Aggresivnes on Electroshock there is something of a turn of the millennium nu-breaks feel. Synths sounds like video game effects from a retro future world with crisp drum funk powering each track along. Spoken word samples, sirens, rave-ready piano stabs and warped leads all add extra personality to the playful beats. 'Popcorn' is our pick for the sheer neck-snapping crispness of the drums and hits.