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  YT12112"  £7.00

Label

Young Turks

Jamie XX

All Under One Roof Raving

The history of UK hardcore is an enduring point of pride for any English DJ/producer worth their weight in white-label 12"s, and they'll all jump at the opportunity to tell you which of the continuum's raves, labels, personalities, cultural moments, and pirate radio stations influenced their work most. Four Tet dedicated a sizable portion of last year's Beautiful Rewind to those memories; Zomby has built an entire career on them. And the likes of Lone and Joy O treat their romantic remembrances of the bygone era like an adornment more than a framework. But on the sample-loaded "All Under One Roof Raving", London artist Jamie xx straddles that fine line between reference and homage.

Snippets of "Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore", British artist Mark Leckey's 1999 experimental short film, are woven into Jamie xx's latest single—along with loads of other 1990s rave scene ephemera. But that's about where the signifiers stop, as the music of "All Under One Roof Raving" is purely the producer's own. Steel drum synths, skeletal garage-referencing beats, and buzzing sawtooth basslines sketch out the unmistakable silhouette of the contemporary dancefloor staple, and it's the best Jamie xx has looked since 2011's "Far Nearer". It's the misty-eyed nostalgic material, though, that colors everything in, using a shade or two of modern classicism and a whole lot of the faded neon hues that slowly age but never die. - Pitchfork

Tracklist

• 1. All Under One Roof Raving