Sensible Soccers Vs. Mad Professor / 8mm Records

Sensible Soccers are a Portuguese trio, whose music could be loosely described as rock. Sometimes it’s spiky and punky, at others its “post-“, borrowing from classical minimalism and jazz. Often it leans toward the sounds you might hear scoring a contemporary White Isle sunset. Here, however, they’ve been remixed by the mighty Mad Professor, whose mixing desk virtuosity has bent the band into all sorts of different shapes. “Dub de Saia Travada” effectively dissects the players, separating their instruments – high-pitched woodwind-like synth, swooning strings, organ and clipped ripples of rhythm guitar – over a slow, chilled, chugging beat. Adding, of course, characteristic doses of delayed, percussive rattle. “Berlaitada Dub” is initially taken right back to just an electric pulse. From here The Prof begins, bit by bit, rebuilding. Echoing cymbals, bringing in a house-y B-line and kick, plus a weird whistling hook and what could be an accordion. Timbales are tonked, sirens go off and…