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Review: Josh Baker has been supremely busy this year, firing off crucial 12"s for labels like Aesthetic, Sukhumvit, You & Me and PIV Limited. Now he lands on Constant Sound alongside his regular sparring partner Alfie Jack for a rich and varied record that should find plenty of use in different corners of the dance. 'Conquest Of Time' leads the way with a mellifluous, trance-licked groover to tickle the synapses, while '5am Club' takes things in a more stripped-back, heads-down direction. 'Shake Effect' offers up some brooding, upfront deep house, and then 'Devon Break' completes the set with a snappy breakbeat shiver to appeal to the ravers out there.

Review: Josh Baker and Alfie Jack were locked down in Devon for two days, and what we have here is the music they cooked up in that time. t's straight down to work on opener 'Hazard', which marries jacking Chicago drums with bubbling melodies and bulbous synth sounds. It's one for both head and heel such is the fusion of both cerebral and visceral qualities. There is a more playful sense of funk to the skipping and airy drums of 'Simplistic', which harks back to someone like Glenn Underground, while 'Night' closes with a mid-90s tech house fluidity that Terry Francis would be proud of.