DJ Clent - Hyper Feet

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  • Following last year's brilliant RP Boo LP and Traxman's dusty offering from 2012, Planet Mu now showcase another footwork veteran. DJ Clent debuted on Dance Mania in 1998 (and a couple of his ghetto house productions from this period were reissued on Blank Mind in 2012). As with Traxman, his age seems to have given him a keen awareness of his musical heritage. The title track of his new EP, Hyper Feet, nods to footwork's roots in Chicago house by riffing on an '88 acid classic, Mike Dunn's "Magic Feet." Clent's interpretation is loose, but the stark sci-fi oddness of the original is preserved—albeit accelerated to panic-inducing speeds. The result sounds like an emergency klaxon echoing through a failing spaceship. "Clent's Dog Catcher," meanwhile, slices the lurid P-Funk classic "Atomic Dog" into garbled shapes, replacing the grinding sensuality of the original with a sort of scratchy angst. In both cases the goal clearly isn't to push our nostalgia buttons so much as create unsettling new affects, something Clent does with considerable success. Even romance, that most comforting of subject matters, becomes unsettling in his hands—both "Don't Go Down" and "Don't Leave Me (Baby)" refract lovelorn themes through a paranoiac lens. Only in "Baby Yeah" does sentimentality win out, and only just.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Hyper Feet A2 Baby Yeah 2012 B1 Clent's Dog Catcher B2 Don't Go Down B3 Don't Leave Me (Baby)
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