Do You Party?

Do not adjust your CD players, the disc isn’t skipping. This is probably the first and most important advice to bear in mind when listening to this debut solo album from Drew Daniel, one half of US experimentalists Matmos. Like UK producer Herbert – whose Sounds Like label Party is released on, this album sees Daniel experiment with a number of electronic styles- electro, house and tech-house, before deconstructing the grooves with his cut up, stripped down approach.

It’s an approach that results in a few genuinely funky tracks – check the hot wired electronic house of ‘Soft On Crime’ as well as making ‘conventional’ dance music sound revealingly simplistic.