M.C. TUNES & 808 STATE Creamatomic (White)

A track which will probably gain a chart entry on its club success alone. Probably the Tunes/State teams hardest piece of vinyl to date. Using a more acid rock beat to work on while Tunes raps away to his hearts content with his usual 'don't f**k with me attitude'. These two teams from Manchester have style but no class. Bit like City and United really only joking.

RAVE RATING: * * * 1/2

M.C. TUNES versus 808 STATE 'Tunes Splits The Atom'
(ZTT ZANG 6T)

With a backing that sounds sorta like a pastiche of the Rolling Stones' 'We Love You' and Jimi Hendrix guitar, this wordily busy weaving jiggly pop rap is in Original Rap (121bpm) and instrumental Zero Gravity Mix (120bpm) versions, flipped by the repetitively 'Get Up Stand Up' and 'Fly Like An Eagle' quoting but otherwise instrumental bass and drums rumbled 'Dance Yourself To Death (Marley Mix)' (119½bpm), while separately promoed now as a brand new remix is the differently titled 'Creamatomic' (120bpm) (ZTT ZANG 6TX), punctuated by Cream's 'Sunshine Of Your Love' chords in freakily fluttering jittery Rap and Instrumental versions, flipped by the nervily fast talking 'Cool Atom' (120bpm) variation on the original 'Tunes Splits The Atom' also in Rap and Instrumental versions.

[Reviewer: James Hamilton]

MC TUNES
'Tunes Splits The Atom' ZTT

Tunes, the mad professor of rap, returns with some immaculately vengeful rhymes, and down in the dark and doomy lab his partners 808 State have created another hypnotic formula with immaculate funky backbeats. Tunes and 808 State are the only form of atomic power that's environment friendly.

[Reviewer: ROBIN SMITH]

MC TUNES VERSUS 808 STATE 'Tunes Splits The Atom' (ZTT)

Well, perhaps not an achievement of quite that magnitude, but not far short all the same. This record doesn't know the meaning of the words 'laid back'. Headf**kingly manc rapping from MC Tunes over equally lunatic beats. Though the 808 State presence seems far less pronounced this time around, this is still a marriage made in heaven - which seems to be Manchester for this lot... "the dance capital of England" seems a bit of a needlessly parochial boast to make

MC TUNES AND 808 STATE: Tunes Splits The Atom (ZTT)

Futuristic blips and burps provide an inventive base for MC Tunes and his brothy assertions. "Manchester's the dance capital of England" (maybe, who cares?), "You drool at the sound of my musical feast" (tish tosh!) and "I unleash vocal domination like Hendrix on strings" (maximum shite factor!!). MC Tunes is as valuable and ingenious as the majority of his retard colleagues across the Atlantic, whatever that means.

[Reviewer: STUART BAILIE]