Mr Tophat & Art Alfie - Pajala Sunrise EP - Bass Culture 038

It's a busy time for the hotly tipped house music duo, as their recent turn for No Fit State is swiftly followed up by this appearance on D'Julz's ever consistent Bass Culture stable. There's a techno thread at work in the lead track "Pajala Sunrise", what with its peppy tempo range, tweaked siren noise and general sense of urgency, but there's still plenty of the soulful sample selection going on in the midst of it all. "Ressle's Restroom" is a touch more focused towards house music, but it's certainly of the submerged, hypnotic kind, as distant samples fall into a loop and the drums keep pounding without much sign of respite.