808 STATE - 'Azura' (Dillinja Mix) (ZTT)

Typically Dillinja: dirty bass, runnin' breaks. 'Neff said.

***1/2

BLACKMARKET RECORDS

808 STATE
Azura (Mixed) (ZTT)

ARRIVES WITH a photo of Fallopian tubes on the front. Like you do, obviously, if you are Madchester refugees with periodic mixing and collaborative credits to your name, but are somewhat uncertain where you stand in the swirling mess of today's constantly shifting dance scene.

Frightened, evidently, of appearing like granddads, Graham Massey and company enlist the vocal flanges of Louise Rhodes (slightly smoky, with an undercurrent of mad tramp on nightbus) to warble over some high Habitat-style jungle, and the results are non-commitally benign; delivered no doubt, for the specific attention of the drivetime massive.

They are, basically, 'having it moderate'.

[Reviewer: John Robinson]

808 STATE
Azura
[ZZT]

A DIFFERENT version to the one found on The BOB's current 'Don Solaris' album, though still bearing the lovely lilting voice of Louise Rhodes from Lamb. This 'Azura' features lush strings, steel drums, funky bongos and an almost limbo heavy-house beat that makes it exotically endearing. This is balanced by the flipside which features a breakneck drum'n'bass mix from Dillinja which will scare small children. Those Bob guys, eh?