FaltyDL - Make It Difficult / Jack Your Job

1 Make It Difficult
2 Jack Your Job

FaltyDL continues his 2011 takeover with two dead smart sides for All City. It seems like not a week has gone by this year without at least one or two of his remixes catching our attention, and most importantly the quality has been consistently high. With 'Make It Difficult' he again nails that black art of syncretic groove composition: constructing rhythms that sound like a DJ synching two loose but compatible tracks. In this case, it might actually be a three deck mix, creating a swingsome lather of vintage NY House patterns and breakbeats with supreme dexterity. Flipside he's on it again, applying that patented spatial rendering to make the patterns slide inside eachother like a coital moire of deepside House memes. Mmmmm...www.boomkat.com

Falty DL - Mean Streets Part One

a. Mean Streets Part 1
b. Moonshine
c. Hard

No messin', Falty DL is a proper badman. He's dominated the release schedule in 2011 with some truly outstanding releases and this 12" for Swamp81 is one of his best. Part 1 of 'Mean Streets' can be taken as a love-letter of sorts to his home turf in NYC, tucking swaggered Breakbeats under muggy, droning chords and shuffling Latin disco percussion to awe-inspiring effect, constantly turning oblique corners and jay walking across the groove with a masterful knowledge of his ends. Flipside, 'Moonshine' is another gangsters special, dispensing rolled Funk drums with symphonic strings in dextrous, spatialized 2011 style while 'Hard' brings the night proper, dipping between 'ardcore-chopped breaks and uncompromising subbass dynamics. Highly recommended!...www.boomkat.com

FaltyDL – Phreqaflex EP

1. Phreqaflex
2. Because You
3. My Friends Will Always Say…

FaltyDL massively impresses with three 'floor dedicated garage cuts, confidently sidestepping the cluttered complexities of his two previous albums for Planet Mu. There's a feeling of spacious freedom and sensuality written all over these, from the kinky hardcore tropes of the title track and its quicksilver scuff 'n skip, right through the dubbed shuffle and empty warehouse reverbs of 'Because You' on the A-side. 'My Friends Will Always Say...' on the flip consolidates the best of both his worlds, designed with an advanced sense of jazzy electronic arrangement, yet keeping everything sparse and still poppy enough to really capture the crowd's affections. A massive tip for all future garage nuts!...www.boomkat.com