Houz Nation vinyl

R-Zone is an intriguing new label venture from Global Darkness, the Dutch DJ collective affiliated with Creme Organization and the Godspill mailorder site. The basic premise of R-Zone is to put out a series of anonymous 12"s from established artists, with the intent of shifting the focus away from namedropping and perception based on hype around individual artists and bringing it back where it belongs; in the lap of the music. It's an intriguing exercise for a label to undertake in the current climate and given the list of artists supposedly down to contribute - everyone from JD Twitch to D'Marc Cantu via Tuff City Kids - it will be interesting to see how people take to R-Zone. The debut release Houz Nation adopts a notably pitched down tone throughout with the detuned rave of the title track and "Smile Little Zoe" sandwiching the mulchy, insect crawling machine funk of "Rattler".