IAK - an anagram declaring that he’s well and truly in the building – is a tetchy tech-house/breaks nibbler from Kraymon’s Peter Horsham. Scrabbling away with the use of time-stretches and the intervention of bright synth showers, it’s an otherwise unspectacular accumulation of synth stabs and squirts, bobbling along on and on. And on, for nearly nine minutes, despite the skiddy bassline rattle making more of a raspberry-blowing impression towards its back end. The deep low-down gristle is perfunctory; too set in its ways early doors to have lasting appeal, despite some good touches that show themselves every so often. Sorry, but you’re either gonna get into it straight away, or see your patience straining because of its one-track mind that never threatens a diversionary route.
After a timidly composed opening exchange, a remix of Smertins Anti-Social Club’s Toadstool bursts in to life and prove that Kraymon pockets both chalk and cheese. He gets ears back awake with a classy funk horn loop jive talking – no artificial ingredients, just the real thing, that along with a snipped wiki-wikki guitar, really spells out the meaning of funky breaks. A one-note bassline sweep curves in and out of wiggling synth twinges, but it’s those bonzer brass-players that earn the track’s keep, back-and-forthing like Bona Fide’s Superbad at breaks speed to relieve the previous monotony with a fly Bristoilan hot-shoe shuffle.