Bass · Footwork · Juke · Machinedrum · Mike Paradinas · Planet Mu

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It was almost inevitable that Travis Stewart and Jim Coles would collaborate.

Last year’s Rooms saw Machinedrum fuse footwork’s rhythmic twitch with a junglist sense of sugar-rush euphoria; Om Unit, meanwhile, made the link more explicit through a series of footwork-jungle reworkings under the excellent pseudonym Philip D Kick.

As you might expect, then, their work as Dream Continuum is ingenious crossover material. ‘B Free’ kicks things off with a classic rushing drop, guaranteed to get the molars grinding for any jaded junglists out there – though the payoff is more 808 than Amen. ‘Giv A Lil Luv’ trades in lumpen piano chords and a rinsing breakbeats, while ‘Set It’ riffs off a schlocky new age monologue and woozy pads which sound like they’ve been run through a cheap tape deck circa 1995, before looping up ragga chants and dense drum machine-meets-breakbeat syncopations.

You can stream the Reworkz EP in full, exclusively at FACT, below – tell us it’s not a winning combination. It’s out on Planet Mu on March 26.

http://soundcloud.com/factmag/sets/dream-continuum-reworkz-ep/s-JgVie

Machinedrum · Old School · Om Unit · Planet Mu

Machinedrum · Planet Mu

Electronic Explorations – 156 – Machinedrum —– 13th June 2011 “One of the biggest producers around in 2010 – 2011 ….. been going for a long long time …. 1st release back in 99, I’ve been after a mix from Travis since I set up EE ….. finally, I can put this pursuit to bed “

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