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Take It Easy! We need more taglines like these in such trying and self-recriminatory times, where the stresses of a part-imagined urgency prevent us from decompressing in the way our social lives really should allow for. But is dance music, whose traditional motto is to "jack", compatible with such a mantra? DJLMP shatters these apparent antinomies of relaxation and danceability with three new edited heaters here, designed for triumphant joie de vives of the kind that do not poke, prod or demand too much from us. A later Diana Ross sample is put on heavy opening rotation on 'Diana's Loop', while similarly echoic verboffs are exchanged on 'Spring Touch', where dub delays haze the mix into something a little more convulsive. Space for wonky downtime is reserved on the B's 'Reggatronic', in a rare case of hip, lo-fi breathing room reserved for a dance record.

STAFF COMMENTS

Mine says: Should edits be fun, and in some instances maybe even a little bit silly, or should they only exist to improve the song in some way or other? It's an age old question and I'm not gonna lie, I tend to stick to camp serious. Anyone who can't decide should pick up this 12 and get themselves a bit of both.

TRACK LISTING

Spring Touch
Diana's Loop
Reggatonic