Roni Size - New Forms • CDs • Vinyl Records • LPs • Music Albums

musicians, draw from much that is familiar in dance music: jungle's high-speed rattle; the pneumatic pant of vintage techno and house; the beatnik-fuzak swing of acid jazz; the whale-noise school of old-time German synth music. The attraction here is in the shape-shifting, the way Size and Reprazent shuffle, stack and scatter the obvious and the incongruous -- 150-plus beats per minute, the loamy groan of an acoustic bass, the dropout dynamics of dub, the soul-siren call of vocalists Onallee and Bahamadia -- without tripping over their own cunning. "New Forms" will not be Digital Britain's breakthrough album in America; this is a record of big ideas, not of accessi