FANTASTIC FOUR
This issue’s hottest four names in dance music
Foamo Miss Odd Kidd
No stopping the UK’s jumped-up fidget phenomenon Sassy electro rhymestress with bark and bite
We weren’t expecting to find the latest ghetto-houser in sleepy High Wy- “I had a jumper that had ‘odd kid’ written on it and my friends started call-
combe but Foamo’s hyperactive fidget is exploding out of the Bucks suburb ing me it!” grins Natalie Stanley, aka Miss Odd Kidd, and she sure ain’t your
faster than the turbo charged basslines it’s powered by. Loaded with cut-up average rapper.
sample hooks, Amen fills and jumped up bass mania, his debut ‘Moving Over Her party hyping rhymes and cheeky ’tude are a real shot in the arm after tides
Here’ stormed straight into the boxes of MSTRKRFT and Armand Van Helden of faceless rave producers. With a neon bright personality, oodles of charisma
when it dropped on Tony Thomas’s Cubism last year. and straight-up sassiness, the first lady of electro rap is leading the charge of
“I always thought house was a bit girly until people like Switch came along a new wave of London ladies who know how to party, but aren’t afraid to call it
and got me excited,” explains 21-year-old Kye Gibbons, aka Foamo. like they see it, too.
Recently released on Wearhouse Records, the upstart’s bass ripper ‘Every- Hooking up with reborn UK garage label Locked On, she drops ‘Don’t Be
thing’s Cool’ has been smashing floors for Midfield General, Boy 8-Bit, Armand Afraid To Sweat’, on 3rd November, an ode to getting loose on the dancefloor
Van Helden and Crookers. And fresh from recording a Radio 1 mix for Rob Da produced by Goldielocks — all ebullient electro sparkle, with euphoric synth
Bank, Foamo’s fidget fuel is set to truly combust thanks to remixes for The swathes and Odd Kidd’s exhortations to “Get as high like the Trellick Tower!”
Mystery Jets, a collaboration with Det Boi on Herve’s Cheap Thrills and a DJ The flipside remix by NYC’s Drop the Lime and the CD-only ‘Sperm Donor’
diary that has flipped from empty to overloaded in a matter of months. complete a serious package. Get on this early…
A1 Bassline Fort Knox Five
Power pop bassline straight outta Croydon Washington beat fiends funk it up
The latest low-end avenger to rise from Croydon, A1 Bassline is stepping IT’s not just the seat of America’s presidential power, y’ know. Washington
fresh with a nu wave rave rush of 4/4 thumps, old school garage stylings, D.C. also boasts a cool underground breaks scene, with Fort Knox Five the
manic electro energy and elastic bassline ripples. stalwarts who’ve pushed their own brand of funk and reggae inflected beats
A1 Bassline is Christian Sibthorpe and his ‘Girl Thing’, featuring Saffie (out since 2003. ‘Radio Free D.C.’, out 10th November on Fort Knox Recordings, is a
now on Meal Deck), crams every last influence of this producer’s musical mind boogie back excursion through the many different manifestations of da funk,
into a bumping 140bpm groove, as retro garage keys fight against the deliri- connecting with Washington’s go-go past and travelling the world in search of
ously manic bass of the current Northern niche sound. It’s no rudeboy thug- new ways to jazz it up.
out though, Saffie’s cute helium hooks and the power pop synths of Cubase’s
A1 soft synth keeping things as fun as they do funky. Sticking it to George W. Bush and McCain, ‘Funk 4 Peace’ is a righteous groove,
featuring Mustafa Akbar’s hype lyrics and an injection of psych sitar vibes
As Annie Mac, Sinden and A Trak all slam the garage styled ‘Girl Thing’, A1 for good measure; erstwhile rocker Ian Svenonius sleazes up ‘How To Start A
Bassline’s unreleased projects include a forthcoming killer crunk-house remix Band’; ‘The Wonder Strikes Again’ is an emission of crisp, speaker smackin’
of The Qemists feat Wiley’s ‘Dem Na Say’ and a future classic in the ska-strut- dancehall, augmented by Sleepy Wonder; and ‘Spirit of ’75’ is wreathed in
ting bouncer ‘Fever’. The future sound of Croydon is upon us. proto disco strings and warping electro low-end, a genius concoction that
makes it the best thing on an already stunning album. Buy!
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