Local Action 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: FINN's white label series keeps on giving up golden goods and now the third in the project is here. Again limited to 300 copies with no digital and no repress, it's a club-focussed 12" that opens with 'You Know Right', a tune that pairs driving UK drums with a mournful set of chords. 'Love & Or Happiness' is both deep but upbeat, with a great vocal sample stealing the show, and 'Scandalous Little Number' serving up wild, freewheeling chords over unrestrained drum bumps that call to mind classic Moodymann. 'Sweet Little Loop' closes in hi speed, hi sweat, hi soul fashion.

Review: Welcome to the world of Lil Jabba. This US footworker belongs outside the established Chicago based network of current artists dealing in the frenetic rhythmics of the genre such as DJ Rashad, DJ Spinn and RP Boo, apparently spending his time between Baltimore and Brooklyn, "exhibiting his visual art" and "riding around with his bike gang". Having dropped a number of self released EPs that clearly marked him as something of a precocious talent, Lil Jabba is afforded the chance to demonstrate his production chops in more expansive fashion with Scales, a ten track debut LP for the Local Action label. The finely placed strings that permeate opening cut "Red Current" hint Lil Jabba is well schooled in dirty south hip hop and there's a definite complex musicality that unfolds over the subsequent nine tracks with the weirdness steadily ramping up as the album progresses.

Review: There has been no shortage of bright and bold crossover styles from Slackk over the past four years, with impressive bouts for Numbers, Unknown To The Unknown and Diskotopia providing a platform for the London-based producer to become something of a figurehead in the current instrumental grime scene. Now, having spent some time getting cosy with Local Action, he offers the label his long anticipated debut album and takes the chance to drop no less than 16 new takes on his grime-infused musicality with barely a filler or interlude in sight. While the tempos and rhythms may shift, the atmosphere remains consistently in that alien space somewhere out ahead of us, part video game fantasy and part urban uncertainty.