The cool cats behind Berlin’s Slope production outfit and the crazy Crippled Dick Hot Wax label have put together a sumptuous collection of club cuts guaranteed to get your hip-shaking booty on to the floor.  Starting with the contemporary wobble of Danny Breaks’ speaker-rattling Jellyfish and cruising all the way back to the birth of boogie disco, circa 1980, Basscheck boasts a number of obscure but delightfully funky international poppers.  These include a rare outing from experimental legend Bill Laswell’s Material project, Afronaught and IG Culture from West London’s Bugz In The Attic, Roskow from Berlin’s own Jazzanova/Sonar Kollektiv crew, French funker Joakim, Detroit devil John Arnold and Baltimore maverick Maurice Fulton.  The lights are colourful and bright, everybody’s smiling and the ladies are all dancing.  Who said the Germans don’t know how to groove? 

Hobbes