Despite flaunting an extroverted persona on his production records,
Kid Loco's volume in the
Another Late Night series is a very smooth proposition. Wielding the type of atmospheric breaks heard on his first solo album (
A Grand Love Story), Jean-Yves Prieur mixes in earthy breakbeats from
Aim,
the Herbaliser,
Underwolves, his French confederates
Tommy Hools, and the man himself (an exclusive cover of
Gang of Four's "Paralysed"). Every
Another Late Night DJ worth his salt has also has to trawl through music's back catalog, and here Prieur proves himself a master; at certain points, he purposefully slows the momentum with a left-field choice like
PiL's "Religion 1" or, near the end,
Jon Lucien's tender ballad "Rashida." A lock for best transition is the point when the dub detachment of the
PiL track caves in to "Uplink," a crashing beat production from
Stratus. Also recommended is
the Baby Namboos' "Ancoats 2 Zambia," in a dense remix by
Geoff Barrow of
Portishead.
–
John Bush, Rovi