For their self-titled EP, DJ Scotchegg and Kiki Hitomi have ramped up the musical mania found on their Shinsekai LP, delivering a five-track 12” which veritably throbs with dubbed-up electro, Afro-funk and 8-bit disco (e)motion. Cyberpunk to the max, the duo blitter and batter their infectious grooves with a swinging sensibility that holds Hitomi’s vocals in a freefall melange of genre-bending bloops and blips that uncoil around thunderous basslines and subtly applied drum machine workouts.
Labelmate Roger Robinson drops by to voice a sharply-observed slice of heavily effected dub poetry on “Ceremony Of Vision”, Hitomi’s vocalisations providing the melody to a clattery marimba(ish) beat and sputtering electronic jungle — of the environmental rather than breakbeat-heavy variety — swirls. “You are just another beast, and you are welcome”, Robinson declaims from on high amid the enveloping electronic rainforest sounds, reminding all to treat the environment with respect. His is a stentorian yet kindly voice of authority, declaring that the listener should “leave all their worries behind” as he advocates for existing in a state of mind closer to nature.-Linus Tossio-