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Single Review: DJ Zinc – Crackhouse Volume 2 (Bingo Bass)
By Paul Vig | Published on Wednesday 18 August 2010
Ben Petitt, aka DJ Zinc, rose to fame with DJ Hype and the gang in the mid-nineties, and created the monstrous jump up jungle anthem ‘Super Sharp Shooter’. With his benchmark track ‘138 Trek’ he showed that drum n bass, house and garage were only a few beats apart, and this drew him across the divide. Nowadays Zinc only DJs his take on house music, and in that vein he’s back with his second ‘Crackhouse’ EP.
Of the seven tracks here, early Prodigy-styled ‘Old Flame’ is definitely the stand out, it really rocks. Also worth a listen are ‘Gtac’, which starts with a Euro-house feel before going into a Zinc standard bassline, and ‘Let’s Go’ and ‘Love To Feel’, which feature guest appearances from grime rapper JME and Jamie George respectively.
Less good is ‘Gimme The Camera’, which is just a bit annoying, while ‘Mouthful’ is also rather weak. Things improve a little with the trippy drippy ambient cut ‘Huh?’ which wraps things up, but it’s not on the same level as ‘Old Flame’. If you download the digital version of the EP you’ll also get a bonus track in the form of a DJ Marky remix of ‘Wile Out’, which is a nice little roller but nothing to write home about.
All in all, there are a couple of interesting moves and grooves on ‘Crackhouse Volume 2’, and it documents where Zinc is on the map today, but sadly several misses are included. PV
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