Review: Planet Orange are making their name with bright and bouncy VA releases, and on their third excursion, the crew behind the fast-rising Planet Orange imprint has decidedly to take us on an interplanetary expedition beyond the stars. Kelper straps into his spacesuit and steps up first, peppering a chunky, retro-futurist deep house groove with synth-marimba stabs and suitably spacey chords, before T Jacques reaches for a Korg K1 organ bassline, shuffling breakbeat blasts, sci-fi bleeps and rubbery bass on 'Spruce Caboose'. Elsewhere, Pete Melba wraps psychedelic acid motifs and star-fall electronics around a bustling house beat on 'El Hombre', before Accented Measures sets us 'Adrift in Space' in the company of starry-eyed bleeps, effects-laden vocal snippets, dubbed-out motifs, chunky drums and elastic synth-bass.
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