Remember Armand Van Helden’s Necessary Evil from the 2Future4U album? Sounded like he was going to town on a Black & Decker Workmate, right? Well here’s the tooled up follow up for 2010, Disco of Doom’s Tom Real and Ben Medcalf treating the Wacky Warehouse like a lunatic asylum and drawing their power saws at twenty paces to send blades whirring over a pokey electro basis feeling every last tooth pricking its skin. A supremely over the top breakdown, the disco of doom becoming an 8-bit arcade of nightmares, sees Engine emerge from the toolshed and into a laser-quest shootout breaking emergency glass and activating distress signals at every turn.
Strip away the pinching of ears and DoD’s foundation is so basic they shouldn’t be allowed to get away with it, but the brutality, reinforced by beefy bass shunts, harvests a bloodshed that punters will probably love getting splashed with.
Sex Face is another stepping electro/fidget attempt at dragging you by the lobes into submission, flanging fiercely and emphatically when it hits the spot after tentatively making its way towards aural g-spots. Once it’s found its honeypot, it’s ruthless: the breakdown is again a ludicrous taking hostage of the treble setting, Medcalf and Real giving up greater elasticity so the track’s natural, Mario Piu-indebted annoyingness comes through loud and clear to take its place amongst the current strain of whacked out house mutants.