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Me 'n' Spoonice

One year on and Functional Breaks are set to release the fifth single on the label and the third single from the Spoon Wizard 'Me and Spoonice' is the second track from The Spoon Wizard to feature local rapper Neil and is to be included on the forthcoming album from The Spoon Wizard which is due in the spring. Keeping it 'West of Bristol for productions' all the mixes on this one were produced within one mile of each other demonstrating the amount of musical talent there is in Exeter. The first mix comes from deep housers Blue Effect who have in the past worked with Tom Middleton and are currently getting interest from several labels. The second mix comes from The Spoon Wizard's label mates Silken whose first single Gizmo kicked up a storm back in the summer and they don't disappoint with this mix.

Reviews

Mixer Mag USA

Functional Breaks offers up some UK new school for the decks. The original mix stays true to the Spoon Wizard style and has a mellow tempo with hip-hop lyrics dropped on top. Dark synths pan under the track to give it depth and the new-school analog is a little more hidden on this track than on most coming out of the UK right now. The Blue Effect mix is more on the jazzy/atmospheric side of breaks. Reminds me of older Jamie Myerson stuff put to a breakbeat tempo. The real floor mover on this 12" is the Silken mix. Deep progressive breaks that take over the original vocals chop them up, filter them and spit them back out. The beats are heavy and deep and will definitely move a peak hour crowd. The interesting thing on this mix is that the acid lines seem to have been influenced by some of the progressive breaks coming out of Florida. This is good stuff. Buy it. 5