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Review: Dangerous moves! Two seminal slabs of 92 breakbeat from the gamechanging Reinforced roustabouts Dego & Marc Mac get the treatment in two impressive ways. Rupture's Double O gets busy on 'Mouse Trap'. A snappy device in every which way, he maintains that iconic intro before flipping those venomous mentasms into a spacious 'Deadline' type of vibe before sweeping us off our feet with a cosmic progression. 'Physics' follow suit with turbo twists from Stretch & Threshold. A much more uptempo, militant twist on the 'We Can Be Free' b-side, this one slaps just as hard as the original did 33 years ago.

Review: Underground Software are back on AKO Beatz's fourth release with another set of remixes of their tune 'Comprehensive Vibes.' First up, a Stretch & Enjoy remix that is a fury of hard hitting breaks and spring hi hats all underpinned with jump up bass. The vocal is a soulful one that takes the edge off the drum based tension. On the flip is a perfect back room version in the form of the Cool Down mix which has more squelchy synth work and 90s downtempo vibes with ragga mic work and smoother breakbeats.

Review: Following up on their highly acclaimed debut release from 2020, raster presents Il Quadro di Troisi's Remixes album, an eclectic collection of reinterpretations of eight of the group's tracks. By inviting fellow label artists as well as friends and long-term collaborators to contribute, Remixes flaunts a broad spectrum, from colorful, loop-based renditions by Toulouse Low Trax and Tropicantesimo, to (Italo)-disco-inspired versions by Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi and Chloe, to more rhythmical and functional tracks by AtomTM, Dasha Rush and Front de Cadeaux. The album also includes a dub-infused reinterpretation of the original album 'Il giudizio' by the artists themselves; all tracks amount to womping, texturologic electro-dub-outs, and dazzle with their no-wavey, muted sophistication.