Jimi Tenor & Freestyle Man - Forgotten Planet Awakens

Finish artists Jimi Tenor and Freestyle Man may seem unlikely bedfellows, but both have a reputation for bending musical boundaries and – to coin a clich? of the business world – thinking outside the box. Their previous collaborations for Studio Barnhus were all excellent, and their latest outing, ‘Forgotten Planet Awakens’, is another gem. A kind of imaginary theme to a future sci-fi B-movie, it layers gentle flute solos, easy listening choral vocals, jaunty TB-303 lines and foreboding orchestration atop a squelchy nu-disco bassline and rolling house drums. On paper it shouldn’t work, but it’s genuinely great. Ricardo Villalobos remixes, delivering a typically bass-heavy but surprisingly chunky version that makes much of the Finnish duo’s interesting musical details.