Available on: Hyperdub 12″

DJ Nate, Terror Danjah, Wiley – God bless people who make club music that’s both really danceable and really fucking strange. But Cooly G has just gazumped everyone with this. ‘Phat Si’ is abrasive, inward-looking and, to plenty of people, probably annoying. The only constant for most of the track is the shuffling house drums – filters fly in all over the place, millisecond long woodblocks zone in and out, some bars have subtle, thumping basslines underneath them and then they’re gone. Then when the drums drop out, they’re replaced with Clangers talking. A bit like DVA’s ‘Ganja’, but well, sparser and weirder.

Every time I’ve played ‘Phat Si’ at a club you get half the room going mad and half just waiting for it to stop, which is probably pretty close to Hyperdub’s manifesto if they still have one. Isn’t it mad to think this is only Cooly G’s third 12” single?

Tom Lea