De:tuned Schallplatten & CDs

Review: Two essential but lesser known pieces of the ambient jungle jigsaw dusted off and brought back to the table courtesy of the De:tuned label. Both sides sound fresh as the proverbial daisy though, with Blu Mar Ten's Sandstorm floating along on a cloud of echoing saxes and trumpets and a bed of strings and sparkling keys, the nifty breakbeat manipulation bringing early Photek, Source Direct or Klute to mind. PFM's Runaway is a little steadier in the beats department, playing a chugging Amenbreak off against some soul-heavy vocals, but with the same celestial orchestration going on way up there in the ether. Big on beats, even bigger on the musical element, this is the business.