Daedelus - Fair Weather Friends EP

Daedelus, usually prone to layered bouts of ambient jazz, strange pulsing techno rhythms and whacked out psychedelic samba, takes on a new direction on this EP, apparently inspired by the beat-loving European crowds he's been playing to recently. A simply stunning EP of pop-flavoured experimental dancefloor madness, the lead track is a rolling break with a sexy little sample, while My Beau is 80s R&B meeting heavy B-More bass over smooth electro beats. Elsewhere the album drops dubstep into pulsing techno, and slinky jazz into broken beat. Golden, full of warmth, like an Indian Summer. [Bram Gieben]