- So The End reach the half century as a record company, and it would be a foolish man betting against them making the full ton. These two discs alone ensure that they should reach the super sixes, at any rate.
Cricketing analogies aside, there’s a great collection of techno and house here, chosen (but not mixed) by Layo and Mr C. Obvious highlights are the Echoman tracks ‘Orient’ and the easy funker ‘Havana’, Killer Loops’ brooding ‘Blue Hair’, and the busy electronica of Tone Theory. Layo & Bushwacka provide ‘Deep South’ and an unreleased mix of ‘Love Story’, and Mr C’s ‘Ascension’ and ‘A Thing Called Love’ hit the spot, the latter courtesy of Robert Owens and Charles Webster. Some of Circulation’s best work is represented in the deep chords of ‘Controlled Mayhem’.
So all in all you can’t go wrong with the last seven years of The End, with more hooks and square cuts than your average batsman.