1. Bump – radio edit (clean) (3.54)
2. Bump – Switch remix (dirty) (7.25)
3. Bump – Best Fwends remix (clean) (3.46)

Baltimore-based electro / hiphop duo have certainly won a sizeable Australian fanbase on their back of their storming debut album ‘Yoyoyo’ and the success of its first two singles, to the extent that there’s sure to be many out there eagerly anticipating their imminent Big Day Out live sets. This third single to be lifted from ‘Yoyoyo’ selects perhaps that album’s most booty-obsessed track ‘Bump’, but presented here clipped of its more graphically linguistic moments in ‘clean’ edit form, it comes across as perhaps poised for even greater potential crossover success than the two admittedly excellent 12”s that preceded it.

There’s certainly a nod to the similarly brightly synth-laden likes of Outkast, but in this case, the brooding distorted analogue synth chords and tumbling punk-funk percussion throw things back towards a considerably older electro age; a Zulu Nation-tinged Bambaataa block party if there ever was one. MC Spank Rock rides the electro flow beautifully with what sounds like an early nineties NYC-inspired delivery, but his colourful flow of male bravado (“behind my Gameboy, I got game girl”) gets stopped in its tracks halfway by the arrival of Amanduh Blank, who manages to easily outdo the boys in the dirty stakes, taking the track straight down into rapid-fire X-rated imagery as the synths swell and the 808s rattle.

Switch’s characteristically up-for-it ‘dirty’ remix retains all of the saucy filth of the uncut album version (as I inadvertantly discovered when I played it on national radio*) and contorts the original vocals through all manner of stuttery processing over a chaotic broken electro-house backing that blends rave-y synth bleeps with booming sub-bass drops. While it’s a characteristically huge Switch remix, I couldn’t help but feel that it got kind of lost of some of the more difficult breakdowns and sudden cold stops, losing its overall moment at several points, to the point where it doesn’t quite reach the heights of his excellent recent Coldcut reworking. Finally, Texas-based newcomers Best Fwends offer up a reworking that sets things towards crisp electro-house, matching fat swelling p-funk synths with a slight buzzing rave edge as the dry-sounding programmed rhythms clank away. While it’s certainly a suitably interesting re-working that manages to inject some more overt funk elements into the mix, it’s hardly the most essential track on here and it’s fair to say that many will be picking this 12” for the Switch remix alone. They shouldn’t be disappointed.

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