Track Of The Day: The Martian - Wardance (Red Planet)

One of many Red Planet tracks to be featured, eventually. ‘Sex In Zero Gravity’ already made the grade last November, sans mots. What I like about this track is its length, it’s a great one to keep in the mix (although with your WAVs, aiffs & MP3s, this is an irrelevant point innit). And it’s tribal riddim. It doesn’t go overboard. There’s a solid percussive pattern and the phasing flange, a la ‘Stardancer’ makes a welcome appearance, but not to such a frenetic extent. The vocal, courtesy of Astral Apache, sounds a little like the repetitive whoop used by Rolando in ‘Aztlan’, so there’s a few recognisable motifs. Above all though is the confidence and power a track like this exudes. UR, (Drexciya in this case?), don’t have to try too hard, it’s in their blood. And this composition is so multi-layered it’s impossible to frame it in any way other than a recurrent passage of technified unearthliness.