Back catalogue: House

Review: SnPLO hears Bay Area "hazy leftfield club cut" purveyor PLO Man entertain an outlet for more irreverent productions. He also might just be your local gaffer's favourite techno artist, with most every release so far connoting exposed circuitboards and copper micro-components in its imagery (visit https://tracksplease.com for a visual lowdown). New EP 'The Cocaines', though, breaks from this trend as a manic and nonsensically charged homage to the white stuff: the third EP on his Pin sub-imprint, it brings burbling, vocal tract emulative minimal techno sound design and sniffy post-dub jolters ('C') to white wax, and that's not to mention the eccentric liner notes: "Slightly Goldeneye yeah cause it was the inhanced highlight the bluer graphic is a bit low rez but i think it was just always that way Adds to the sketchy how does it feel takin em for a drive? dude the 10" like outlined. Seductive."

Review: The Top Secret label keeps things tight once more with a pair of very different jams, but both are going to get huge reactions when dropped at the right time. U first is 'Get Criminal' which is a rework of an MJ classic with his smoky vocals reusing by scene else in a more unsettling fashion and the original drums run through with some futuristic and molten melodies. On the flip is 'Eurotrance', a good old-fashioned piano rave-up with belting vocals, trance synths and euro dance drums. Lovely, fun, accessible and effective.