Red - Seen EP

The wheels of steel have always been a hip-hop act's best friend, but Red takes scratching to a whole new level. In the Seen - All From Scratch version (geek out at him performing this live on his MySpace) he cuts and loops his own scratching through Ableton: the result, a vinyl collage reeking of skill. The simple core melody proves itself marvellously adaptable when reconfigured in the assortment of remixes. Kids in Tracksuits - too good to have their name sniggered at - warp it into a baggy bassline, petering into the occasional leftfield shoegaze. The Playsatan Version, aptly titled, seems to be a hip-hop's conscious parody of minimal techno, especially when it gives way to the final Full Fat track, which is opposingly maximal: a splintering, live guitars and drums rendition to get your rocks off with a total abandon of All From Scratch's swing. [Rosie McLean]