The Unabombers – aka Luke Cowdrey and Justin Crawford – are about to unleash another side of their electric souls with their debut album as Elektrons. Red Light, Don’t Stop is the freshest, most dynamic, confident and sexy British dance record you’ll hear this year. It’s upbeat. It’s down and dirty. It’s a melting pot that incorporates the finest contemporary British sounds, from East End grime MCs to Northern sulphuric soul and futuristic disco, but informed by the great traditions of Britain’s underground club culture over the last 30 years, from rare groove to acid house. It also marks the arrival of a new British dance collective rooted in the basement clubs of Northern England, but following in the tradition of Soul II Soul, the Wild Bunch and Bugz in the Attic. What the Elektrons have done is make an underground record with a mainstream sensibility. A record that knows its history but is very much of its time. A contemporary urban British dance record that will still sound fresh when all this new rave bollocks is long forgotten. All you need is a Red light. Don’t stop.
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