PLUMP DJs
A Plump Night Out
Finger Lickin’/Nettwerk
STANTON WARRIORS
The Stanton Sessions
XL Recordings
· Breaks is good food.
A Plump Night Out is set to become the Homework of 2001. While Daft Punk trundled down the rue du fromage with Discovery, A Plump Night Out picks up the funk torch and brings it to new throbbing heights of break-beat madness. Plump DJs successfully combine the essence of knob-twiddlin’ bass culture extremism with a supercharged percussive bed of beat that replicates the intensity of drum and bass while making it more accessible for the 4/4 junkies. The result is a pure amalgam of unadulterated head-bobbing, ass-shaking good times. One of the year's albums of distinction that would only have been better if their magnificent reworking of War’s Galaxy had also been included.
Like the Plumpsters, Stanton Warriors have raised the bar of the broken beat, but their focus is on the hotter-than-the-sun 2step side of the equation, which is quickly chewing up the world’s dancefloor charts. There are slices of the Warriors' reworked tracks on this album, but it is primarily a mix album that includes elements of garage, 2step and breaks. For those who need more vocals and MCs for head-noddin’ pleasure, this is your connection.
While the new Basement Jaxx, Crystal Method and Daft Punk releases flounder through formula for an edge of the next wave, both the Plump DJs and Stanton Warriors have become key revolutionaries in the quest for higher grade dancefloor smack.
PLUMP DJs 5/5
STANTON WARRIORS 4/5
ROB FAUST
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