Dig It EP

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With a name like General Electrik, how do you think this record might sound? C'mon, take a wild guess. Oooh - close, but you're only entitled to 83% of a Cuban. Sure, the General (Sydney's Anthony Hotop) tips his hat to electro. "Dig It"'s lurching Mantronic bleep-funk and inflated party-beats look to the old skool for approval; the meatier mix which starts off the record turns to the Skint Records posse for additional encouragement. "Lunar Park" plays it closer to the microchi®py neo-electro dispatches beamed from Berlin's Electrecords or Detroit's Interdimensional Transmissions, with Jake Slazenger sound-alike "Dinky" falling between the two poles. But the housed-up "Roboto Okuku" deviates from Hotop's electro calling, trancing out like an alien escape-pod bumping along, down the starfield road on autopilot. Variety is always nice, even when it costs you part of a cigar. A promising start, and another continent heard from in the global race for electro-supremacy.