Susumi Makai introduced his world of carelessly colliding strains of dance
music — incorporating left-field disco, funk, hip-hop, and house, along
with good old sloppy garage rock and spaghetti Western soundtracks — with
12" singles that were scattered across 2001 and 2002 on the Flesh and XL
labels. One of these, "Tunnel Music," appeared on Playgroup's DJ Kicks
disc in 2002, while "Serious Trouble," a similarly buoyant track with
buzzing fuzz-bass riffs, also got lots of spins from DJs who adore
similarly whimsical and irreverent dance-oriented labels like Output and
DFA. There's no focus to Makai's debut full-length at all, but that's
obviously not the point. Apart from the reliance on thick grooves and
funny noises, along with liberal use of scratchy flicks of guitar, there's
little c...
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