With its characteristic scrawled illustrated wobble dial cover, scribbled jaunty lettered title, ‘Wobble Control’, and wobbling quivering sound Mr.Scruff’‘s latest wizard wheeze tune, leaves little to the imagination – it does exactly what it sayes on the box so to speak.
Of course there’s also a warbling Mr.Ozio flavored flat-Eric style bass – warping and thrashing away – and some seasoned grinning knob-twiddling to contend with; adding some lo-rider flowing electro to the 4/4 indolent track. Other than that, it’s business as usual.
However, the adjoining tune, Music Takes Me Up, has a far more poppier house vibe to it: a track for those who find Groove Armanda a little too fey, and Basement Jaxx too obvious. UK soul singer extrodinare, Alice Russell lends her Lauryn Hill-esque tones and quality to the growling squelching synth-led soul tinged tune. It’s certainly a catchy enough record and will appeal to the club enviroment, but it’s pehaps a tad too evanescent and pedestrian for my own tastes.
[Rating: 3]
A special 180g chunky 12inch vinyl version is already avalible, and you can now download ‘Wobble Control’ off the official Ninja Tune site.
6/6/2011
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[Rating:3]
