NAPT - N-Funk Part 3

 
Pump Up The Jam by Technotronic; yes, cycling shorts, fingerless leather gloves and doorknocker earrings are upon us again. Guilty hip-house satisfier, or bygone relic with plague-like levels of avoidance?

NAPT are never normally ones to drop a rick, so there’s instant reassurance for you in case that instant Euro power riff makes you start pulling faces. Make My Day tramples all over the D.O.N.S. mix from a couple of years back, mainly because the main synth has been fine-tuned and cleaned up with recognition without too much fuss, and NAPT are relying on the vocal as a sideshow instead of main source of pulling power. It might even be used too sparingly, with Louise Marshall in charge of putting booties on the floor tonight, though it does pop up at all the right times. And, well, NAPT are at the controls, which is a pretty big positive to take to the bank. They’re tooled to the tonsils with all their usual firepower, electro-cyber flora and fauna as standard, super-electric back up.

Time You Realised is a nifty, tricky, disco yet not quite number that might catch you unawares, capitalising on a window of experimental opportunity and putting NAPT in a whole new light. Classic house stabs get caught in a breaks slingshot to begin with, before the track’s body chops back and forth in a complicated categorisation of B-more sway and prolonged synthesizer rattle. For those that love leaving a dancefloor vexed, the beats prosper from the sudden tempo shifts and will test many a groovebird.