Blood, Michael J.: Archetypal Artefacts Vol 4 CS

Michael J.Blood is back on his hi-grade ferric thing with an hour of top drawer, sawn-off house and beatdown boogerz built with his brilliantly off-grid suss - surefire tackle for fans of Marcellus Pittmann, Howard Thomas, Madteo, Theo Parrish, Rat Heart, Actress. Mutant soul child of North Manchester, MJB continues to skew cues from Detroit, Chicago, New York, and a funkier fuck knows where on the 4th volume of this alphabetical trawl through his unreleased archive. ‘Archetypal Artefacts Vol 4’ is another high velocity curveball, marking a return to a format with abundant bangers for discerning dancers into owt from Theo’s Ugly Edits to Rat Heart’s brand of scuzz via the wigged-out steez of Howard Thomas aka H-Fusion. Opening with a soul-slapping chop-up, and shoring up in a wickedly smudged deep house tump, the session encompasses all strands of Blood’s now well-established roots in the screwed house sound, and its constituent DNA. We’re talking mustiest pockets of triplet-shuffled beatdown swag nudging shoulders with looped up R&B, what sounds like an edit of Prince's Bob George, squashed square basslines, Dâm Funk-esque electro-soul, and even moments of Detroit Escalator Company-ish woo, into the greaziest broken beat wrigglers and psychoactive jack trax imaginable.