Celestial Plan vinyl

Following fine recent outings on Wolf Music, Le Petit Zoo and D.KO, LB aka Labat serves up more dope freshness on the freshly minted Magic Black imprint. Just like previous releases, the majority of the tracks on Celestial Plan are crafted from a combination of dusty samples, hand-picked loops and tapped-out, MPC style beats. This approach allows Labat to flit between blazed, late night instrumental hip-hop beats ("Nothin' New (Dub)", "Spice Go"), woozy but attractive, off-kilter soundscapes (the impeccable "Sticky Green"), lo-fi, post-house fuzziness (the eccentric but rather good title track) and most positive, dancefloor-focused affairs ("Pack Your Stuff", which contains a suitably positive and glassy-eyed loop lifted from an old Paradise Garage favourite).