Tusken Raiders
Bantha Trax Vol. 3

The third instalment of Planet Mu boss Mike Paradianas' Bantha Trax series features eight previously unreleased tracks hailing from the sessions that gave birth to his acclaimed Lunatic Harness album of 1998. Drill and bass was the name the press came up with at the time, describing a marriage of scattergun jungle and drum and bass techniques applied to relatively gnarly, industrial sounds from the outer edges of the rave planet, and it fits the bill here. That said, the album's final two tracks, 'Generate Tusks' and 'Fessio', veer away from the breakneck breakbeat madness into the slightly more electro/techno slanted territory that the first in the series, released on short lived but much loved label Clear, had featured. Still, not for the faint hearted, but fans of Paradinas' uncompromising approach will surely lap up this unexpected portion of seconds.