M:Landsky - Bloodhound / Rush'N'Run

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  • For those who only know Martin Landsky via his hit-and-miss tech house for Poker Flat Recordings, this reissue of two tracks from his days as the boss of Effortil/Intim may come as a shock. Landsky sounds about as funky as a white man can get, cutting up records on both sides like a dance floor-beholden Moodymann. Both "Bloodhound" and "Rush N Run" were put out in the late '90s, a moment when Landsky hadn't quite mellowed into elder statesman status. And both are rough, rude and, unlike much of his work since, genuinely exciting. While the man may have become "better" at production, there's something absolutely visceral about "Bloodhound"'s repeated exhortation. "Keep it funky, indeed." The release makes its way back onto wax via the folks at Decks, this being the third 12-inch in their new reissue label Decks Classix. With Blake Baxter's "Our Luv," Miss Kittin & The Hacker's "1982" and Romanthony's "The Wanderer" all now in the hands of many vinyl lovers for the first time—and Moodymann's "Dem Young Sconies" and Romanthony's "Let Me Show You Love" apparently on the way—it's hard to dispute the company that Decks has placed Landsky's two tracks in. Listening to the results, I can't help but agree.
  • Tracklist
      A Bloodhound B Rush N Run
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