Exile* - Pro Agonist

Completely awesome.

I've rinsed the SHIT out of the more DJ friendly tracks "Big Bad Purple Bad Boy" and "Openable Dog" in my sets for years now, and abused "Open Mike" as an intro over and over as well.

..But I also crack this album out on random nights just to listen to the abstract ones: "Sliiime", "Sure You Did", "Mushroom Santa", "Merlin"... little ditties that scratch that itch way way in the back where I can't reach.

Put together on wax, it comes together somehow and earns Tim a spot in hall of fame, really. Weird, it doesn't really have any kind of flow whatsoever... each one kinda jerks you from place to place, but each one is just crazy cool. There's shit here or there that probably doesn't work in the grand scheme, but fuck it... Can you do any better?

It's a milestone of Tim Shaw's searching of his own drum'n'bass/jungle sound from the times he was being released on Moving Shadow label. Tell frankly - I don't expect nothing else from him after this: here in this album he gains together all that has done, and then shows all that he has achieved.
Good work - bad work - this defininition doesn't suits to this work: in my opinion the album just exists and it will be always in my mind and heart. Thank you, Exile.