V/a / Andale Vol.4

Tigerbeat6

It’s summertime, and the living’s sun-drenched and sleep-deprived on our end. The latest entry in Tigerbeat6’s ¡Andalé! Vol. 4 is a nice little soundtrack for after-hours, before-hours, and between-dreamtime partying. Put this on and ignore your pulls toward natural circadian rhythms and lack of darkness in the day – and if you don’t live as far up north as Berlin, just substitute with plenty of cigarette butts, dry heat and lakeside barbecues. As to the music? TB6 mainstay Luke’s Anger starts it off hyped with “Chronicles Of Funktronica”, with 8-bit squeals and guttery ejaculations (stop giggling) to hit you right in the solar plexus. Continuing with the 8bit trills, there’s the butcher-block beats on “Go Bananas”, from Bruce Stallion. Get smacked with the bowel-emptying wobbles you’d expect from the guy whose last EP featured tracks titled “Drugs = Bad” and “Sunglasses”. Now we’re Frenching a bit, as TB6’s BlattCouture delivers a take on fellow countrymen dDamage’s “JB Savage”, from the latter group’s EP 100% Hate. The pummel of the original is still there, but now you can jump to it (essential for a summer night groove). Baseck finishes things up handily with a track to shout about (literally, he’s screaming himself horse), the vocal mix of “Unbalanced”. You ever eat a bunch of candy and stay up all night playing videogames? Baseck did, and then hooked an IV up to a mixer. Check the blood sugar.

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