Scour Records ensure plenty of summer dancefloor action with the latest in their featured artist drops and the featured artist this time around is Bondi Stereo. I was in Bondi once – during the Australian summer too. The one thing I remember (apart from all the Portuguese Man O’ War, the constant shark paranoia, the constant Funnel Web paranoia, and the dodgy hostel I stayed in) was that it was something of a melting pot – a bit like this. Nice & Smooth’s Hip Hop Junkies pushed uptempo over a much busier break with assorted funky trimmings, the Ultramagnetic MCs and the Lovin Spoonful on the same cut and either the hook from T Rock & Squashy Nice’s Pretty Girl With a Crooked Smile or the same original sample – it’s all there. Any one of these could instigate dancefloor largeness but it’s the ‘hip-hop, dance, feelgood music’ of the ska-hop closer that’ll really have them walking like an Egyptian, walking all over the moon and saying, “Hey!” Hot Summer Bombs indeed…
(Out 17 July on Scour Records)