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• Keep Up! 002

  
  Keep Up!, the five-strong collective from south London, present another super heavy 45 of dancefloor mayhem to follow their huge first release: Keep Up! 001. In keeping with the formula, the boys have gone for an uptempo A Side for that heat of the night spin, while the AA Side is the neck-snapping speaker blower to set the vibe.
  
  Debut artist Avé Blaste joins Lopez to bring you the hip-hop influenced, funky disco soul of Drakefield Soul. Avé, AKA Zac Vibert, has been delivering superb DJ sets to the masses at Hospital Records’ Hospitality night and, of course, Keep Up!’s own tip-top nights in Brixton town. A certain female star leads us into a snapping beat that even J Dilla would have been proud of. The main groove is a piano-led series of hooks with reggae fx fizzing around the mix. The three sections of the tune each produce their own bass line, making the tune twist on its heels throughout. This is a perfect helping of the current craze for disco and great for your party in the club or at home.
  
  The flipside heralds the return of Lopez (the three-man Paraguay-Tooting expansion team) with Barrio. We told you to watch out for them and, true to form, they’ve delivered another slice of latin-edged hip hop. Leaning firmly on the past, but with a foot in the future, Barrio cleverly uses the influence of a certain latino icon and smashes it up with a huge twisting bass line that should make any basshead bug out. In other words, it’s big and nasty. Super-subby kicks work with the warping, mutating bass line, which should suitably bang heads whatever time of night you rock this one. If you loved Donde on Keep Up! 001, you’ll flip when you hear Barrio.
  
  As before, Keep Up! 002 is being released as a limited 500, on 45 only.
  
  Praise for Keep Up! 002:
  
  "Barrio is a prime slice of summertime wobblage"
  Mr Scruff (Ninja Tune)
  
  "Both tunes sound really fresh. The A fits to the B fits to the C..."
  Jazzanova
  
  Barrio: ''Can i feel it? Yeah my chest is hurtin’ from that bassline… DUTTY!!..''
  Toddla T (1965, EMI Records)
  
  “The Keep Up kids do it again with another pair of surefire midtempo bangers. Drakefield Soul is a classy 60s soul piano workout with a hint of disco”
  Dr Rubberfunk (Jalapeno Records, GPS Recordings)
  
  “Both great summer tracks. Barrio is my favourite. Chunky and soulful - I can imagine it ringing out over a few sun-drenched fields this festival season!”
  Hint (Tru Thoughts)
  
  Drakefield Soul: “Good gosh - latino jazz twisted into spaced out disco until it becomes my idea of a perfect record! i badly need a solid copy of this"
  Wrongtom (Hard Fi’s DJ)
  
  Praise for Keep Up! 001:
  
  The World Famous: “Drum hugeness and horn riffage collides with honky tonk piano – straight in the box”
  - Strictly Kev (DJ Food, Ninja Tune)
  
  

• Keep Up! 001

  
  From the depths of south London comes brand new label Keep Up! Records. Its aim is to bring you contemporary music for the dancefloor heavily influenced by vintage funk, soul, hip-hop, jazz and latin - tunes that all the best diggers out there are clamouring for. For the last four years, Keep Up!?s five-strong collective of DJs and producers has been putting on parties across London. A residency at Brixton?s best boozer-cum-club The White Horse has boasted guest DJs such as The Herbaliser, Hint and J*Star. Keep Up! has also featured or supported Prince Paul, Coldcut, Luke Vibert, DJ Food, Nostalgia 77, Jazzman Gerald and Danny Breaks over the last few years. Rumour has it that Keep Up! was behind last year?s smash Recorded Delivery 12" EP of classy re-edits. Now, after months of slaving away over hot laptops, the Keep Up! boys bring you their debut release.
  
  The World Famous is from Keep Up!'s Tom Central. Tom has spent the last ten years DJing in Europe?s best and worst clubs, and is said to have been behind three of the tracks on the Recorded Delivery EP. This cut takes its cue from from the hard-hitting American funk and soul cuts of the late 60s and early 70s. A heavy bassline, smashing snares and bold brass run this massive dancefloor cut. A solid live breakbeat works around the arrangement in the vein of the classic Hook n Sling. There?s even a tinge of latin thrown in for good measure. When you need a reaction on the floor, these four minutes should deliver the required shakedown.
  
  The flipside is brought to you by Lopez, who are Keep Up! member Javier Nexus and two of his buddies back home in Paraguay. Donde is a solid latin hip-hop head-nodder that was born in Latin America and raised in Tooting. Boom bap drums rattle the speaker cones whilst timbales and trombones take their turn with solos to move the feet. There?s a simple vintage vocal hook added to the mix, which keeps the groove bumping along nicely. If you love Quantic's latin outings, this will be perfect for you.