- DJ Rashad has a wicked way with a vocal sample. On his follow-up to the excellent Rollin' EP, the footwork producer uses vocal snippets as the backbone for his tracks, mangling and mutating them until they take on a malevolent life of their own. Sometimes he lets the sneering sample of the title track ("I don't give a fuck… You ain't gonna be shit") do the talking, leaving it by itself apart from a swishy pad, but the track really gets going when the jittery snare rolls and sustained, high-pitched bleeps build the tension and drive everything forward.
"Brighter Dayz" is even better, flipping the vocal from the euphoric house track into something scruffier and darker. Despite being jam-packed with careering percussion—from the thump of an 808 to ticking hi-hats and junglist breaks—it never feels too busy. Burning relatively slowly in its first half, "I Still Love You" becomes a dizzying network of high-pitched synths and skipping rhythms. Rashad subjects the titular vocal sample to so much compression and repetition that it takes on a sarcastic quality. More in the vein of "Rollin," "Way I Feel" is hookier than the other tracks. With its melancholic chords, diva sample and relative spaciousness, it brings the EP to an unexpectedly romantic close.
Lista de sequência de músicas A1 DJ Rashad - I Don't Give A Fuck
A2 DJ Rashad & DJ Spinn - Brighter Dayz
B1 DJ Rashad & Freshmoon - Everybody
B2 DJ Manny & DJ Rashad - Way I Feel