Kirlian - Pleasure Yourself (Disko B)

The head honcho behind three New York record labels and resident at NY's Limelight club, Kirlian IS Carlos Abraham Duque. In Pleasure Yourself he serves up a streetwise tranche of Hispanic space-jazz trip-hop, which excels in percussive perfection, proving that house beats and bleeps are built to last. Tracks such as 'Porzellangasse' and 'Follow' bounce away at 160BPMs, all highly mixable, but in need of some colourful remix treatment to make them full main courses, rather than smooth, sweet desserts. An oasis in the middle of this pulsating madness comes in the form of from an altogether more human, sensitive slice of laid back, scratched-up trip hop: 'Mission'. That's a track which makes this LP worth seeking out on its merits alone. With a bizarre syth theme tune, 'Dysonsphere' (aptly subtitled 'An Example Of A Dumb Way To End An Album'!) and a full four minutes of answer-phone messages from techno celebrities clipped on as an appendage, this is the cheekiest futurist disco album since Deee-Lite's World Clique. 8/10


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