102POINT7 by RICARDO MIRANDA

Chicago's Ricardo Miranda makes his debut for the ace Stilove4music label, maintaining a fine year in which he has already dropped some serious heat on our sub-label Hour House Is Your Rush and his own Noble Square imprint. Check!Title track "102point 7" is all jagged synths, throbbing arpeggios, slashing claps and a rolling acid groove. On the flip "Rotary Cells" is deeper still, a 909-led jacker with layers of sub bass augmented by a woozy vocal, followed by "Greenline", a stripped back jam with scuttling hats and the kind of paranoid synth melody that wouldn't sound out of place in Jeff Mills' Something In The Sky series. Dark, raw, pulsating dance music