Now there ain’t much you can fit on an 8 gigabyte Nano, especially when your favorite website is flinging quality releases your way on a weekly basis. One thing you do learn is to be pretty ruthless with which tunes get to stay on the little bugger for more than a week at a time. Anywho, my point is that the original This is Sander Kleinenberg is earmarked in my keepers playlist and keeps lofty company with the likes of James Zabiela’s Utilities, James Holden’s Balance and Pulp’s Different Class. Two years on from the Boratto, Klinkenberg and Chymera induced eargasm, Sander returns with the sequel, with the familiar Left/Right format intact.

Enough wankery then, and on to the release. The mix opens with easy strings and chimes in an introspective moment from Sascha Funke before a double-header from Stimming chugs through the rain bringing a cargo of chilled tribal rhythms and exotic warmth which reminds me of Les DJinns. The disc builds with a hop in it’s step maintaining the funky melodic groove as it swaggers by. Lucy’s Downstairs gives me a Belfast moment before the familiar but perennial notes of Push Push become the prettiest thing in the room. As the disc peaks, Sander reigns in the melodic ejaculation masterfully, opting for a change into colder more serious territory with some acid flashes and minimal craftings. The mix draws to a close starting with the trancey breakdown and lush vocal of Asteroidz and peaking with the best in show, Matan Caspi & Eddy Good’s Magic Bottle whose rolling gorgeously paced melody reminds me of Deadmau5’s finer moments.

The second disc (Right) gets straight into it, showcasing Sander’s penchant for tribal tech house aligning him comfortably with Mr Carl Cox’s current agenda. Alternating between full throttle builds, Fonz-like funk and bleepy minimal, the mix is seriously pushing for that competitive space on my Nano. Joseph Indelicato & Jose Velez’s Put A Name To This sounds like a repsonse to Phil Kieran’s Dancing Bears while Ortzy’s Massive is erm… massive; trancey synths, raving horns and bloody good times. Sander’s programming is impeccable, drawing the pace back for a breather and cooling the funk into icy coolness. And then, sadly, it gets all kinds of ropey. Garraud’s The Answer sounds like a bad Fedde cut (and that is saying something) while the Bit Crushers’ rhymes are painful at best. The final stretch sees improvement with the insistence of Stardom Groove :”if you haven’t danced yet, what the fuck did you come for?” before Sander tries a stab at french disco and kitschy Frankie powerpiano to close.

All up, an above average offering from Mr K, let down badly by a half-arsed last quarter which is sure to resonate with fans of the Sydney Swans. As for whether it will last the distance on my iPod remains to be seen, but hell I’m looking forward to the third installment anyway!

Check out the full tracklisting below:

CD1 – Left
1. Sascha Funke – Summer Rain
2. Stimming – Silver Surfer
3. Solomun & Stimming – Feuervogel
4. David Keno – Replika”
5. Lucy – Downstairs (H.O.S.H. Remix)
6. Rockers Hi-Fi – Push Push (Rainer Weichhold Remix)
7. DaFunk – Smokin Hawt
8. Phonique – Teenage Love (Kevin Yost Remix)
9. Glenn Morrison & Bruce Aisher – Graffiti
10. DBN featuring Matida – Asteroidz (Sultan & Ned Shepard Remix)
11. Matan Caspi & Eddy Good – Magic Bottle
12. Robert Babicz – Tblisi

CD2 – Right
1. Sander Kleinenberg – This Is Our Night
2. Rene Amesz – Ridicule
3. Hennon – Heart To Ear
4. Joseph Indelicato & Jose Velez – Put A Name To This
5. Luetzenkirchen – Foxy
6. DJ Ortzy – Massive (Dirty Flavor Remix)
7. Muzikjunki featuring Warren Morris – Please You (2009)
8. Santito featuring Ternea Jordan – The Music Got Me (Block & Crown Paradise Mix)
9. DJ Ortzy – Yoko
10. Joachim Garraud – The Answer (Dabruck & Klein Remix)
11. Bit Crushers – Time 2 Werk (Sean McCaff 2009 Remix)
12. Stardom Groove – Homeboys
13. Helge Kuhl – Autumnbomb
14. Mason – Kippschwinger (Refurb)