( ANTAM 010 ) LOCAL DJ - Cosmic Scene EP (12") Antam

Your friendly Local DJ implies an ethic of cosmopolitanism with the new 'Cosmic Scene' EP. Marking the tenth release on ANTAM, the Parisian producer delivers a classy noughties-feel four-tracker, blending spaceout beats and vocoded hooks for an overall hearty hurrah. '2 Good 2 Be Friends' and 'Cowboy Bleebop' set the scene with confident, cosmic kick foundations through which said vocoder licks might chirrup, and that's before we've even mentioned the padwork, tremulous as it is resolute. Then the B-siders 'Da Neon Scene' and 'Take It Please' take things up a notch, imagining the cosmic scene as not merely diurnal, but cartable well into the night, with gurgling disco licks and avid robo-orchestrations providing ample crepuscular contrast to the A's establishing light.