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| CD Review by Red Eye MUCHO MACHO • Mucho Macho are Neil Dunford and Tim Punter, two longtime clubheads from th’ old skool who decided to put everything they love on one record. • UK breakbeat duo lifted their name from the Beastie Boys’ "Sabotage" Video. When you’ve spent 15 or 20 years going out to dance clubs on a regular basis, you get exposed to a lot of different styles of music. Especially in the U.K., where you would have gone from old soul, funk and jazz weekenders to Chicago house, Detroit techno, and party breakbeats from hip hop to hip house. Unless you aren’t paying any attention, with that kind of experience you should be a pretty good judge of what can rock a party. As are the two blokes in Mucho Macho. Their liner notes big-up MAW, Salsoul, Kraftwerk, George Clinton, Mantronix and Marshall Jefferson, among others. This is one eclectic bag of beats. You’ve got Propellerhead-style breakbeat ’n’ bouncy bass on the Norman Cook fave "Rap Is Really Changing," old skool electro emissions from "The Airport Freeze," and some damn funky deep house on "Rockley Sands." And that’s just in the first half. It gets mental from there with hard Latin techno (!), acid breakbeat antics and frequency sweep silliness, culminating in their epic dose of dancefloor darkness, "Declaration of War." Sure, with this much going on there’s going to be a link that’s weaker than the others here and there, but according to science, a chain isn’t really as strong as its weakest link. Actually, it’s as strong as the sum of the strengths of each independent one, with weak links being able to take more pressure in a chain than they could alone. At least that’s how it works with The Limehouse Link. 4/5 |
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