Plump DJs – Soul Vibrates / Bullet Train

My copy came in a "dancerecords.com" sleeve with store barcode on it . Sweet LP

Isn't having a genre called 'breakbeat' 'breaks' the same as 'techy' techno' ? A bit redundant ? Having said that I do tend to diferentiate between 'breaks' and 'breakbeat'. One is that slightly tired and at the moment, overused stylistic method of chopping breakbeats up, adding square wave synths and a hip hop vocal stab. While the other can cover a lot of music identified by it's use of complex syncopated drum patterns. What 'breaks' 'breakbeat' is though, I have no idea ?!

I have to agree with damnage - this is definitely a step in the right direction (in my opinion) from the rather indifferent 'Eargasm', which had a few highlights but didn't blow my socks off. 'Bullet Train' is a cracker of a track and the clear winner on this release. At first I wasn't too sure about the cheesy-ish synthesizer stab breakdowns riddled through it, but hey, it seems to work on crowds. From what I've seen they tend to invoke plenty of finger points and even a bit of air-synth.

Finally the Plumps come out with something that rocks as hard as The Push/Scram did. Not to say I didn't enjoy the Eargasm album, but Lee Rous & Andy Gardner are amazing at making nasty tech-y breaks that can whip a dance floor into a frenzy, and "Bullet Train" does just that. Flip for "The Soul Vibrates" a dirtier, funkier track that follows the Finger Lickin' style to a T.