Eden Burns – Big Beat Manifesto Vol. IX

Melbourne's Eden Burns has been publishing their 'Big Beat Manifesto' in vinyl form for a good while now. We'd'n't've predicted a musical style popularised by Norman Cook warrants manifesto-penning on a level of the Dadaists, Futurists or Stuckists, but hey, we won't complain, cos the music is sick. And it hardly sounds like your typical 'big beat' either. Nah, this is more a tricksy, comical clubsploitation hat-trick, verging - if you must tease a genre name - dubby tech house, moving into locomotive techno. Andras and Eden Burns' 'Wrangler' begins on a recondite note, with a faint vocal sample suggesting ideas of wanting to be in on an impossible joke. Desire turns to 'Obsession' on the A2, pon which a central monotone resounds like the toot of a steam train, while the B1, 'Calvin Klein' blithely indulges the tech house underwear brand sponsorship deal through chuggy womps and further, sultry vox cutups.