Hudson Street

Northern Ireland’s biggest dance outfit have enjoyed considerable success since the crossover hit ‘El Nino’ in 1998, and currently feature on several Ibiza compilations. Hudson St. offers a wider angle on the Agnelli and Nelson muse, since the tracks featured here range from trance to house to bangin’ and mashed type numbers.

‘Singing For The Future’ eases us in nicely with an uplifting mellow groove before ‘Slide’, with it’s unrelentingly hypnotic bassline, ups the ante. ‘Let Love Come’ and ‘Obea’ are pumping house tunes equipped with gorgeous garage-y vocals while the title track is initially reminiscent of Leftfield’s Shallow Grave theme, before the spacey eighties keyboards kick in and it’s hands-in-the-air time.

‘Everyday’ is a swirling floorfiller that does a nice line in breathy gasps; ‘Vegas’ is a sweet little builder of a tune that eventually lifts the lid off, and then we’re back to earth with ‘Santiago’.

The album closes with ‘Sidewalk Driller’, a slightly more clunky offering than it’s brothers and sisters, but even so possessed of an ear-freaking production trick that had me checking to see if my head was still attached to my body.

All in all, then, a credible and accomplished production that sees the boys well up there in the dance/production premiership.