Mike Hogan Reviewer for: MOFO, Flux mag, TTR mag, Nuskoolbreaks.co.uk, Breakspoll.com: DnA - Elixir - Muti Music

Back in the day San Francisco was thought of as the hippy capital of the world, the inherent drug consumption must have made it’s way beyond the water to the very foundations of the city itself. Muti Music, the West coast’s most experimental (in a “don’t give a fuck - if its good, it’s good!” kind of way) breakbeat label keeps managing to excel itself in terms of non-conforming beatiness.

DnA brings us an incomparable melange of techno, tech funk and glitched breaks in the shape of ‘Elixir’, a track that has certainly dug deep into those acidic foundations for narcotic induced inspiration. With an almost aphexic blend of 4/4 heavy heavy stomp and twisted glitchy breaks the ‘ruined’ remix continually modulates it’s gruff synth-shapes (whilst bending the mindframe) before encouraging involuntarily body re-shaping on the dancefloor. Not for the timid, or impatient, this should be mixed long and hard, fairly late at night when the party extras are at full peak.

For a slightly more straightforward breakbeat version old noodles (Si Begg of course) himself has worked his sonic mastery with his bleep n glitch genome remix. Long drawn out bass edits and showers of blippery pepper the beggy breaks. Lurching between glitch breaks, grime and late night gloom it’s sure to be a trigger favourite, again - for the late night crew, don’t expect smiles and hands in the air though!