Musique Risquee has always carved out a singular style, from its bad-taste-is-good garish sleeve artwork to the sometimes uncompromising, even occasionally outright undanceable music contained within. The new soberly sleeved offering on the label, from New York based russians Alex Kaline and Edward Krilov, at last seems to be progressing directly from Leclair's own groundbreaking work for Force Inc, and the incredibly influential Psychometry series issued by Trapez a few years back. The four tracks here certainly cut the crap, "Mugen Vugen" using a propulsive click track to explore the man-machine interface again, a cool ravesignal resonating deep within some breathy invocations. Rampant club thumping is the carte du jour here: "Oslee ushi" employs dirty fat bass smudges, "Vacu" is as the name suggests more diffuse, but its only when "Ghost convertibles" wades in with the bass drum that club alchemy occurs - filtered discoid spanking for glamorous booty shaking everywhere.
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