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Review: If Pendle Coven's most recent transmission from the bunker (£100 A Metre EP) unleashed their admiration for classic UK hardcore circa 1992, "Marriage Of Convenience" sees them take an altogether more cherry flavoured pill. "X Marks The Sample" happily spreads its wings across the full span of the A-side and with insatiable melodic abandon delivers an alternate take to the pop-fuelled minimalism Cologne has claimed as its own over the last 5 years. This is a track of lovingly expansive proportions, a majestic blend of happy beats and reflective chords; if the underground ever deserved an after-hours anthem, this is surely it. "Modern Mode" opens the flipside and could well end up being the signature piece for this label, encompassing all the things it holds so dear: endlessly padded basslines, motor city progressions, airy rhythm skitters, dub chords & it's diligently honed and repackaged for maximum impact. In other words this is a killer! "Tributary" closes this EP with a careful study of the downtempo exploits the likes of Theo Parrish have become so well known for. Opening with a heavyweight bottom-end metallic clunk in 4/4, this track soon expands into a multicoloured mélange of spacious hi-hats and twinkling string samples. One set of ears in this office to implore all onlookers to wait until a suitably early hour of the morning before exposing themselves to this 12"s incorrigible charms. Alternatively, a cross between the peerless skills of the aforementioned Mr Parrish and the sublow cuts of the Digital Mystikz or maybe even Kode 9 might give you the descriptive fuel that's so hard to articulate when it's gone 4am.