Ghostly drums straight out of Lovecraft’s xenophobic nightmares open up a aural landscape already indistinct, shrouded with a smokey flicker straight from Limbo.

Bashmore’s 2009 remix of the middle child from Deadboy’s already seminal U Cheated 12″, Heartbreaker, plays with the future or Future Garage.  A Future that came and went, a future that now arrives with a new 12″ with old remixes.  It’s an alternative past where these remixes formed a canonical relationship with a 12″ that rightly popped up everywhere.  It’s the Primer of Well Rounded 12″s.

Where Deadboy’s original always seemed like the percussion was sliding out from under it — a masterclass in the limits of control and belligerent bass –  Bashmore’s take locks step quicker and replaces the pounding bass with a scuttling piece of pre-dawn House.  Great swathes of calm and reflection punctuated by an almost mournful wash of hand-claps and reverberating synth stabs.  Finally tying the streetlight-synths of the original to a suitably deserted piece of 4am percussion.

 Deadboy – Heartbreaker (2009 remix by Julio Bashmore)

Julio Bashmore‘s Heartbreaker remixes 12″ is out on Well Rounded Housing Project on 03/10/11.

Good friend of the 20JFG’s Ashley Marlowe truly is a man of diverse and excellent taste- He does kill it drumming for some of Brighton’s premier lo-fidelity scuzz combos. He introduced me to Harry Pussy, and is always throwing the sickest shit wave music my way whenever I show up at Edgeworld records, where he sits behind the counter like an owl watching the gates of the country of Good Things. But as he readily admits, and perhaps in a similar way to your 20JFG scribes, he balances this penchant for all things primal and chaotic with a love of the structured energy of good dance music, both as DJ, producer and, awesomely, record label runner, which brings us to Well Rounded Records, object of today’s feature.

Be ready to amaze.

Deadboy’s is the first reference in Well Rounded. And what a reference: throw the infectious metronomic shuffle of two step into sparse dubstep landscapes, feed it with abstract protein seeds and watch it grow strong. Variations in bass tone synthesise pristine emotions, Burial out of the mist, minimal techno on a short leash.

We leave you with U Cheated today, which smells, tastes and feels like a timeless gem of quintessentially British underground pop music brought from the future of funk by a laser eyed mystery dude. Perfect jam to speed through barren South London highways on the way to the best party ever, there can be no bigger praise.

Deadboy- U Cheated

Do buy the record here. Put your money where your hips are.

Listening to U Cheated  made me think of Cajmere and Dajae’s Brighter Days- you could perfectly mix it into it, reverse the riddim and you are there, music from different places created with the same spirit. This is timeless stuff indeed, Chicago gospel deconstruction pumping from the speakers of a church inhabited by androids of black chrome percolating like crazy, a hands in the air moment that goes on for five minutes and a half, hey DJ, if you see me down at the party, drop this one and make my night.

Cajmare/Dajae- Brighter Days (Underground Goodies Mix)