A six-song mixtape from the Glasgow label with a global outreach, this EP jumps across a bit of a history of dance music in around half an hour. We come booming out the gate with some gloriously wobbly dub from Echo Party on ‘Peeeeel’, then into percussion-heavy, disco-influenced bass sounds on ‘Conga Cave’. Then comes the appropriately squelchy, spacey new jack of Der Opium Queen’s ‘Extra Wet’.
There’s a post-punk influence in the atmospheric atonality of ‘Only So Young’, and in the ominous Cold War strut of ‘Igreja’, which tees up the ecstatic, bleepy rush of ‘Dubfoot’ by Raf Reza. 12th Isle are a label that consciously grow the culture by combining a reach of artists from across the world, mashing styles that are all focused on bringing people together on the dance floor.
All of these tracks are marked by that, by a real sense of fun and joy in the shared humanity of shaking your body.
