Review: Somewhat surprisingly, this action-packed 12" marks URTEKK member Regan's first solo outing on vinyl, having first appeared on wax via a split EP way back in 2014. The little-known artist hits the ground running with superb opener 'Kickback', a sparse, spacey, post two-step roller in which electronic bleeps, glassy-eyed chords, heady synth stabs and echoing vocal snippets leap above crunchy UKG beats. Oden and Fatzo opt for a warmer, dreamier and more traditional two-step garage sound on their accompanying remix, before Regan opens side two via the Super Hans/Peep Show-sampling analogue deep house wonder that is 'The Big Beat Manifesto'. Remixer Midge Thompson flips the script on his revision, re-wiring it as a sub-heavy chunk of dub house heaviness.
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