When I first blogged about Frikstailers back in 2007, it was clear that something frisky was being dunked in the water in Argentina. Laid out in front of us, we had a seemingly endless outpouring of twitchy, fidget electro from the very same territory that was simultaneously bombarding us with chopped and screwed re-cuts of old school cumbia. Ralf & Sandro Lee’s latest EP is once again a prime example of South American genre-bending, brandishing a clear lack of concern when it comes to demolishing borders.

‘Baile Frik’ takes funk carioca as its starting point, however the familiar tamborzao rhythm is soon locked in a tussle with Frikstailer’s ruthless scalpel, and partway into the journey, the drum machine pads return to their roots – acknowledging a four-decade old debt by introducing some decidedly Kraftwerkian interplay. Elsewhere on the EP, rising boy-wonder Fulgeance adds a remix under his Peter Digital Orchestra guise, and there’s two Frikstailers rerubs of cuts from Panamanian MC Zulu.

Shell out the hard stuff at the new Revolt Into Style label site, who are also preparing to drop tunes from Douster, Marcelo Fabian and Zort.

Frikstailers – Baile Frik | mp3

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