Luke Slater's 2nd album for NovaMute sees him hold back on his techno production for a project entirely dedicated to the breaks - hip hop, funky drumming and electro. Primarily he follows his nod to Bambaataa on the grandiose "Are You There?" (from 1997's Freek Funk album) further into the electro zone. The exciting first English single "All Exhale" (to be remixed by Andy Weatherall) and other album tracks "Sum Tom Tin" and "Body Freefall, Electronic Inform," snap, crackle and body pop from your speakers like the best of nu school electro from producers like Anthony Rother and J Saul Kane. On the hip hop side Slater is hitting hard and heavy with the big beats and Add N To X-style chaotic electronix of "Hard Knock Rock," "Sheer Five Five" and "Bolt Up." Slater excels in freeking his funk in new hybrids, as on the upbeat "Let Eat All Vanbrook" which sounds like Microphonies-era Cabaret Voltaire with an extra funky drummer. And for a change of pace, or two, are the creeping slow hop numbers "You Butterfly" and "I Thought I Knew You," which share the album's edgy lo-fi colorings from samples of radio noise and voices.