D.A.B ‎– Night of tapes E.P. [SU-01]

Artist: D.A.B 
Release Title: Night of tapes E.P.
Label: Signal Unknown
Cat No: SU-01
Format: 12“

Tracklist
A1. Nats
A2. Flesh Time
B1. Corporal
B2. Mooch Dance

 

Here we have a brand-new label and a previously unknown artist, though the word on the street is the D.A.B is a new alias of a well-regarded producer. "Night Of Tapes" is certainly an assured and quietly impressive debut, with our mystery man or woman offering up a mixture of acid-fired, retro-futurist sci-fi house ("Nats"), electro-inspired Chicago jack ("Flesh Time"), bustling rave-era techno rawness (the alien-sounding stabs, fuzzy bass and crunchy machine drums of "Corporal") and - most thrillingly of all - the kind of breakbeat-driven, riff-ready tackle that wouldn't have sounded out of place on Orbital's "Brown Album" (killer closing cut "Mooch Dance").