Get Up / Dirty Basement / Hurry On Down / Stop Hold It / Maximal / Classic Cliché / Be With You / The Source / Don't Give Up / Wishing / Interlude / Joy

GENUINE ARTICLE

The debut record from The Unabombers, aka Luke Cowdrew and Justin Crawford under their Elektrons guise, RED LIGHT, DON'T STOP finds the duo delivering a collection of upbeat dance tunes in the vein of Basement Jaxx.

Opener GET UP finds the duo picking up the reins from Basement Jaxx and delivering the feel good dance vibes with effortless panache.  GET UP rides along on a carnivalesque sample sting whilst Pete Simpson delivers the soulful croons and Jurassic 5 rapper Soup lays down smooth sounding rhymes.  One of those unavoidable dance hits in waiting, GET UP has all the makings of a massive radio hit written all over it.   Coming over like a UK take on Missy Elliot, Elektrons are here joined by mic queen Eska on latest single DIRTY BASEMENT, the meeting place slap bang between Missy Elliot, Basement Jaxx and MIA.

There's nothing particularly awe inspiring or jaw dropping here though, DIRTY BASEMENT your typical UK grime mash up, all tough beats, pounding bass lines and snappy samples.  Eska provides a certain attitude and style, but again its nothing you won't have heard countless times before, her vocal style doing the job well enough but hardly standing out as anything particularly fresh or original.

RED LIGHT, DON'T STOP is a record that seems to veer between brilliance and banality with unnerving regularity, the likes of the Lady Sovereign esque cheeky pop of STOP HOLD IT or CLASSIC CLICHÉ interweaved with the plain dull soul posturing of MAXIMAL or THE SOURCE.  DON'T GIVE UP imagines Moby at a Manchester acid house revival party whilst the smooth soul of WISHING is about as dull, lifeless and unimaginative as you can get.

RED LIGHT, DON'T STOP is an ultimately patchy and uneven sounding record, on the occasions that Elektrons get things right they're an unstoppable force to be reckoned with; it's just a shame that so much of RED LIGHT, DON'T STOP features them indulging in dull soul posturing that detracts from the experience.

BIOGRAPHY

Justin and Luke Unabomber have stepped away from the decks and into the studio as Elektrons.  Building on the dirty basement ethos of their Manchester club Electric Chair, Elektrons' forthcoming album is a distillation of the across-the-board phuturustic black music inspirations and dirty, sexy attitude that have always informed their DJ sets and rocked dirty basements all over the world.  Featuring UK mic queen Eska sounding like Missy Elliot doing the Saturday night house show on an East End grime pirate, first single DIRTY BASEMENT is both a crunk-house collision of all that's freshest and most dynamic in music right now and a bold affirmation of their anti-bling warehouse party nightlife aesthetic, a call to arms for the weekend to, as Justin puts it:  "let your hair down, feel it, get dirty."

LINE UP

Justin Unabomber

Luke Unabomber

Eska Mtungwazi

DISCOGRAPHY

DIRTY BASEMENT FEATURING ESKA (Genuine Article>2007)

Dirty Basement (7" Edit)

Be With You

Dirty Basement (LP Vocal)

Dirty Basement (LP Instrumental)

GET UP (Wall Of Sound>2007)

Get Up Feat. Pete Simpson & Soup (Radio Edit)

Get Up Feat. Pete Simpson & Soup (Album Version)

Get Up Feat. Pete Simpson & Soup (Herve Gets Down Remix)

Joy Feat. Pete Simpson

Get Up (Instrumental)

RED LIGHT, DON'T STOP (Genuine Article>2007)

Get Up

Dirty Basement

Hurry On Down

Stop Hold It

Maximal

Classic Cliché

Be With You

The Source

Don't Give Up

Wishing

Interlude

Joy

LINKS

Elektrons>www.myspace.com/elektrons

FURTHER LISTENING

Missy Elliot

Basement Jaxx

MIA