The Vendetta Suite / Scrabo Electric / Hell Yeah Recordings

On “Scrabo Electric”, The Vendetta Suite pays affectionate tribute to the music of his body-popping, backspinning youth. The track’s title is taken from the nickname for the electrical store where he and his friends, growing up in County Down’s Newtownards, would buy music, cassettes such as Street Sounds’ seminal “Electro” series. There are 4 mixes and the first pays direct homage to classics such as Jay Burnett’s original “Drum Machine”, Cybotron’s “Clear” and Hashim’s “Al Naafiysh”. Showered in samples, there are flashes of The Grandmaster’s adventures with The Furious Five, Trouble Funk’s “Pump Me Up” and doses of Davey’s DMX. Songs are scratched and the programming P-Funk inspired. “Uprock At Digby’s Disco” picks up the pace. Rapid and urgent, with rattling, metallic percussion and ORCH5 strings shot down from outer space, and the mood now more “battle”, more “The Return Of Captain Rock” and Arthur Baker’s “Breakers Revenge”. The “Lead Mines Bonus Beats” then drops the tempo…