Since cruising the underground of New York for every illicit feral animal in possession of a fuzzing guitar and prehistoric yelp, Soul Jazz haven’t really shown up on my music radar. The New York Noise triptych of compilations were some of the most concise and striking collections of a certain era to ever be given “benchmark” status, but now Soul Jazz are back with a release that sounds like a thousand androids swinging into action on the surface of a zero gravity planet with the LP ‘A Matter Of Scale’ by Secondo.

Secondo- Ought To Say

‘Ought To Say’ opens the album with its disjointed rhythm and shifting sands hi-hats, with bits of other linear robotic structures flying in from other directions and instrumental Grandmaster Flash 12″s cutting through the air in shattered fractures, slicing into the mainframe and assimilating perfectly. Once the track is in full swing, two separate channels of disco are clashing together with minimal ninja strokes, effortless springing movements through the air and sonic darts transferred from one side to the other. Kompakt are gonna be jealous, oh well.

The robots keep advancing, the cold stare from their lifeless red eyes chilling mortals to the bone. But what’s this strange violently regimented sound coming from the Parisian HQ of I’m A Cliche? Grime riddims are exploding from speakers and seem to have been incorporated into the central CPU’s of these automatons, backed up by spearheaded laser blasts, raining down on the Champs-Elysées with brutal unrelenting force.

Uncle O – 8O8 Melody

The 12″ ‘Jupiter Menace’ can be purchased at Piccadilly Records, check it to hear one of the most random collections, presenting snippets of each style of dance music from disco to europop, by way of darkly ambient synthesised landscapes and whole terrains built from the fused wireframes of electro and cosmic balearic movements.