MAD DOG Vinilo y CD

Review: Vinyl Fanatiks by name, meticulous preservationists by nature, the Bournemouth-based label return to their successful crowfunder from last year for another limited run. Artists involved are both local lads close to the founder and chief digger Brent; champion b-boy and a consistent force in the 90s DJ Junk and Dave Wallace and Shaun O'Hara's Mad Dog. The former goes back to a 1992 breakbeat assault that still hurtles at you like the future 28 years later while the latter, who've been mainstays on VF since it launched two years ago, get all cosmic and 3am. Already sold out on crowdfund on its first release, this one is likely to fly just as fast.

Review: The Vinyl Fanatiks label is doing a superb job of offering up classics from days gone by that need to be heard again. They do so in a range of genres and Mad Dog is behind many of them. He is a hardcore maestro and two of his most explosive sounds are offered up on this new limited 7". 'Relapse' opens up with hurried breakbeats and skittish snares that explode and implode over menacing basslines. There is no let up on the flip when 'Secret Garden' storms out the blocks with just as much breaks-driven energy but more smooth and pensive synth work.