An absolute riot of an album, mixing disco-art-punk pogo maelstroms like 'Helicopter' and 'Banquet' to lo-fi downtempo epics such as 'So Here We Are' and 'Blue Light'. An essential release that should be up for the Mercury in September.

Intro – Stockport’s finest Mr Scruff delivers the first in a series of mix cds that aim to reflect his rather wonderful ‘Keep it unreal’ night in deepest darkest Manchester.

Highlights – With 31 tracks there’s bound to be something for everyone but most people will surely, surely agree that Ultramagnetic Mcs “Ego Trippin” is a strictly old skool hip hop gem .

Lowlights – With 31 tracks there’s bound to be something that everyone thinks is crap and surely its the big pile of jazz wank that is Pharaoh Sanders “You’ve Got To Have Freedom”.

Outro – Oh Mr Scruff, how eclectic art thou! There’s so many different styles thrown down from deep jazzy business to classic hop hop via funk, reggae and soul that it could sound muddled in less experienced hands but in Mr Scruff the tracks weave and mesh sweetly.

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Perhaps the most unmexican musician ever Fernando Corona (no, that really is his name) beautifully interweaves minimal electronica and minimal classical music to devastating effect. On Utopia, a selection of label mates including the marvellously monikered Deathprod provide complementary remixes of some of his back catalogue along with a few hard to find tracks. Special mention to the Fax mix of ’Ulysses’ for making the seemingly impossible, a danceable minimal classicalism piece. Overall - rather good.