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Lone 'DJ-Kicks' (!K7)
Matthew Cutler’s career as Lone has marked him out as a producer and DJ who weaves a myriad influences into his music. His first love, hip hop, is the backbone of the early skirmishes of this eclectic DJ-Kicks release, from the loopy, cosmic 8-bit beats of Spotted’s ‘Heralds Of Change’ to the stoned lope of Lootpack’s ‘Hityawitdat’, courtesy of leftfield rap general Madlib. One of the four Lone exclusives, ‘Cali Drought’, is a similarly wonky downtempo lurch. As the mix migrates to the dancefloor, Lone drops some smooth 90s techno with John Beltran’s ‘Placid Angles’ and the cyber-electro of Drexciya’s ‘Bubble Metropolis’, before signing off with Radiohead’s obscure and atmospheric mood sketch ‘Worrywort’. Stephen Worthy
8/10
