Black Bones & Miles J. Paralysis / Black Cross / Crying Outcast

Here’s something I shoulda, coulda seen coming, but didn’t. A cool collaboration between dance floor subversives, namely Belfast’s Black Bones and Bradford’s Miles J. Paralysis. Both delivering 2 tracks a piece, 1 uptempo, 1 down, for Miles’ own imprint, Crying Outcast. The Bones boys, Aaron Black and Timmy Stewart, get kinda Cut Hands on the opening “Psychic Rain Dance”. A hypnotic ceremony of conga complexity, with African chants cheering on those caught up in the ensuing delirium. Their “Low Voltage Dream” is slower. Boasting a rumbling dub B-line, and driven by a TR-808 tick and boom, its still coloured with crunchy, crashing collisions, and topped by mad, but melodic, Moog-y sequences. Miles’ missives are shorn from the same sonic cloth. “Twilight” introducing techno bass pulses beneath the percussive pummelling. “Two Up” riding a broken bogle beat. The latter, in particular, sinister subterranean, with ghostly, gated gasps, cinematic synths and a lonely rave whistle, like the…