Reviews


Dukes of Sluca
Tournament EP

Joia

This tech-edged plate from Stockholm, Sweden brings on some good, feverish party grooves. Old-school hip-hop vocal samples collide with funky synthwork on the churning "Don't Stop," while a nicely filtered upper-register synth anchors the urgently spacey "Steam Machine." Ignore the corny, mid-'80s electro-disco of "Always Searching" and you'll be in business.

Reviewed by Ron Nachmann • January 14 2003