VA - Reiterate Vol 1-2 (2012-2014)

Coming from the freshly formed Reiterate Music Group, Reiterate Vol 1 gave us four sharply reassembled funk edits. We're unsure who is responsible for the A-side cuts, but "Obedit" contrasts its orchestra of horns with subtle African rhythms and guitar, while "Blvd Beats" is a more stripped back affair, favouring tumbling latin percussion and a dusty 4/4 kick over any kind of melodic excess. On the flip, Underground Quality's DJ Qu provides two cuts on a disco tip, with "Bodywork" combining low-slung bass, symphonic 70s strings and classic synth tones, and "Sentimentally" providing an uptempo bomb with Italo undertones and jacking piano riff.

The first volume of the Reiterate series delivered some stunning reworks from DJ Qu, who variously turned his hand to African rhythms, off-kilter disco and obscure funk. There's more excellent scalpel work on this second installment. DJ Qu kicks things off with a heavy, dubbed-out, breathlessly percussive take on Dinosaur's disco classic "Go Bang!", before JTC turns Rafael Villafane's little-known funk rock jam "In The Forest" into a stretched-out dancefloor jam. Steve Oh delivers a subtle, intoxicating deep house version of the Bee Gees' "Holiday", before DJ Qu rounds things off with a sweaty, forthright re-edit of Liasons Dangereuses' EBM classic "Avant Apres Mars", all looped rhythms, repetitive drum machine hits and murky textures.