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Dubble D is Manchester househead Danny Ward. Danny is famous in the exciting world of deep house for his acclaimed album ‘Reachin Out’, which was released in 2002 on 2020 Vision. He has aged disproportionately from all the raving involved in living the nightclub celebrity high-life, and now spends most nights eating biscuits and playing army jazz in northern cabaret groups.

Dubble D’s debut EP for Winding Road takes in so many directions that it makes your eyes boggle – so it’s no surprise that it’s called the ‘Bug Eyed’ EP. One track is twisted Chicago robo-funk, another sits in between hiphop and android disco, another is latinojazz warehouse rave, and the other is deephouse grimestep. Whatever the hell that is. And of course they’re all brilliant, bubbling away in their own special little worlds.

We’ve also got really special artwork once again from our flashy Parisian graphic designer Toan Vu Huu. It wobbles, it jiggles, it properly messes with your mind! Damn, those bugs are moving!

These are the tracks:

Honey is the Chi-town robofunk number, with cute chords squidging around sinewy electro stabs, horn stabs and wobbly bass. Sounds heavy in clubs and has been getting caned by the likes of Tom Middleton, James Holroyd, and other Hello Magazine-sponsored glitterati of the nightlife fraternity.

Betcha starts with Vikter Duplaix style chord movements, and tight crispy beats soon slot in around them. Sweet little bleeps then get dotted around like stars twinkling on an autumn night, but then someone turns off the lights and it goes all dark urban grime, as the wrenching bassline muscles in. An understated killer.

Glaze is a raw discoid instrumental hip-hop party anthem…wild stabs and acidy arpeggios roll up together to form a perfectly simple and instantly playable tune which sits in no easy category at all. It just rocks.

Stoned finishes off the package with a latino warehouse rave track. Deep hypnotic beats lay an eerie foundation on which a jiggling latin key line twists and turns through the phases of light and darkness, with trumpets screeching off all around.

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