 Death in Vegas Dead Elvis
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One imagines death in Vegas DJ Richard Fearless and his partner Steve Hellier storming through record stores in preparation for their wickedly wide-angled debut, Dead Elvis, leaving vinyl chaos in their wake. They'd raid the dub, jazz and ska bins, move on to the moody synths and funkified break beats, and snag a disc of whale sounds on their way out. Back at the flat, they'd ring a few mates, who'd come round to play guitars, drums, bass, flute, sax, harmonica. The outcome would be 70 minutes of some of the most inventively inclusive DJ-driven instrumentation this year, from the slow-drawled acid jazz of "All That Glitters" and the crisp toasting of "Twist and Crawl" to the Read More UFO Muzak of "Sly." And in the end, Fearless and Hellier's record-store haul would melt so gracefully into an entirely new groove, you'd forget that vinyl was ever involved. (RS 774) NATASHA STOVALL
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