MPC grooves meet modular textures downtown on Mr Beatnick's "Joy in Variation", his third and most floor-focussed album to date. Steeped in the language and form of hip hop production techniques and shaped by his musical education propping up the wall of London clubs like Plastic People in the early noughties, the album offers eight playful dancefloor experiments in poly-rhythm, tempo-change and the colourful palettes opened up by modular synthesis exploration.
From the swing and bump of "Joy In Variation" and "Shuffle the Bud", to the tempo-switching beatdown of "Shapeshifter", vintage boogie-funk on "When This Is Over" and even a playful take on Tangerine Dream's 1983 staple "Love On A Real Train", this is a varied set designed to hit hard enough for club play, but stay chilled enough for deeper home listening. "Joy In Variation" is further evidence of why Mr Beatnick's late noughties cuts like "Synthetes" and "Ice Cream Strut" continue to stay close to the boxes of discerning djs after all this time, and why his NTS Radio show has built such a dedicated following over the last decade.

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Mr Beatnick has played an active part in the burgeoning UK beats scene which has produced talents like Bullion and Paul White. His best known track "I Know All The Bitches" featuring the vocal talents of Ahu, became one of the anthems of this movement, thanks to numerous spins on the likes of BBC Radio 1 and Rinse FM. In his music you can hear the influence of whole generations of music from Mantronix to the 90's Bay Area scene and beyond, and the new EP "Synthetes" takes this approach up a gear, exploring a path between the crackling breaks and samples of old, and the dancefloor music of now. With early support from Braiden (Rinse Fm), Slackkk (Numbers), Bullion (Young Turks), Mosca (Nightslugs / Fat City) and Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 1), The "Synthetes EP" looks set to find a unique place in the record boxes of bass addicts and beat diggers alike this summer.


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