Radioclit - Secousse All Stars

Ever fancied getting down to a contorting rain-dance on a cold December weekend? Really, the appeal is greater than you think. Where voodoo chants are set to a driving bass dash, Secousse All Stars tells B-more to draw up its family tree and record the findings, rooted in Radioclit’s colourful yet earnest tech-house crossbreed. The primitive comes together with electro elitism thanks to Johan Karlberg and Etienne Tron’s bulging black book of Afro-beat instructors and tribal chieftains on the mic, for a soundclash that’s nothing if not interesting. Instantly distinctive given Radioclit’s tinkering with odds and ends, a think tank of ideas offers indigenous appeal, knowledge and kookiness mixed with 8-bit, Tricky Disco-style blips and the opportunity for punters to go deep and get tropical amongst the local flora and fauna.
Brodinski sets up deep techno with a quirky pipe refrain that puts the All Stars in the company of Samim’s Heater. It plays as the darker side of holidaymaking and tourist attractions that you don’t see in the brochures. The Red Indian-style hollers, like the tongues of the native orators, are either welcoming or a threat gone without translation, and the jaunty riff and decidedly unfriendly chord pulsations check one another out like a dusky dancefloor version of The Odd Couple.

Riva Starr joins the hoedown with a chunky hipbone bounce that wobbles in a bassy, hula-hooping motion. It’s the kind of pesky spasm you’re happy to follow, with plenty of percussive constructions – bongos, synth wisps, tumbles and tweets - moulded together atop to keep the mood light and easygoing. Perfect for both a set warm-up and when the evening is fully in the glitterball’s line of vision. Roundtable Knights lay on another mix that has studious, stone-faced lineage, and is one that again gets lifted by the synth pipe-ups rising in free-spirited obliviousness. On this occasion everyone is made to worship the skewed tessellation beaming down off-key over the foliage. Mixes also come from Wildlife!, Gant Man and Paul Mad Decent.