Junkyard Funk

When Danny Tenaglia contacts you to say your album is the best thing he’s heard since Giorgio Moroder, you must be doing something right. This is the feedback Justin Drake and Clive Henry got on their debut album, Junkyard Funk from the king of deep, twisted house. With so many home listening ‘headphone’ house albums currently available, Peace Division have stayed true to a sound nurtured on numerous releases on their own Low Pressings label and mixes of everyone from Moby to Dee Zee. There’s no downtempo messing around here, just a succession of tribal, percussive looped grooves, peppered with vocal snippets, synth stabs and subtle breakdowns, quality late night dancefloor tech-house. Although there’s no sub-standard tracks, testament to the duo’s strict adherence to quality, the deep, rolling techno of ‘Shake Your Faith’ and the dub noir percussive grooves evident on ‘Livin ’ My Music’ and ‘Freaky’ prove that no-one does the tripped out 4am drum heavy tech-house thing better than Peace Division.