Kerrier District - "Let's Dance and Freak". Believe it or not [actually… believe it], Kerrier District was produced by Luke Vibert. Sonically, it almost seems impossible, but once you learn that none of the tracks on the album were produced live, it begins to make sense. Luke Vibert's masterful touch has every beat and effect programmed just so—so perfectly that the feel of the music is that of disco recorded live in a studio. The hi-hats have just the right smash, the claps are muted, the synths are charmingly primitive. The ambience hasn't the hyperisolated bass thump of modern dance music; instead it is dark and narrow like the grooves of best Salsoul releases on vinyl.

It's important to hear the spectrum of Rephlex Records' taste in dance music. Gabba posted a track from the Rephlex re-release of the 1978 Italo album Disco Club, by Black Devil. And here we have a recent release on the same label. The palpability and freshness of both are evidence of two things. One, that disco was and continues to be a viable musical form, both for personal listening and for clubs, even without any apparent irony with regard to the genre's lamé'd and leisure-suited past. And two, that even the oddest inhabitants of Rephlex' fucked-up planet, past and present, like to shake their respective asses.