Highlife - DJ Y (Unknown To The Unknown)

 

Title: Highlife 

Artist:  DJ Y

Label:  Dance Trax

Cat Number: DANCETRAX033

Genre: Breakbeat Spread

1: Modern Wank

2: Gutter Funk

3: High Life

DJ Y is Coco Bryce, someone whose nom de plume always puts me in mind of a young American tennis player. And I’m sure he gets it all the time from randoms trying to be out there with their word association. “Modern Wank” indeed . . . and I usually don’t go for such manic fare, but both that and ‘High Life’ do, in spite of their lack of restraint, convey something. Bryce’s melodic approach, on this release at least, is an, emotive, highly strung one that manages to sit of the right side of cheese. ‘Gutter Funk’, however,  is a raw, slightly jarring piece of Relief – inspired trackiness which will appeal to the dancing drones out there, but not to anyone who demands a bit of consonance to carry them along.