The second release on Pink Lizard Music's club imprint pxnklxzrd, Fucu's 'Rocker' comes with absolutely zero information about the artist.
A dub-influenced shuffler picked up early by DJ Barely Legal for her BBC 1Xtra mixes, 'Rocker' waits until the two-minute point to drop an erhu sample that takes it into a completely different space.
The remix from 6Music mainstay Spatial Awareness notches up the Detroit techno influences. An immediate favourite for Capital XTRA's Coco Cole, it's the latest in a line of recent work that's received plaudits from Skream, diskJokke and Danny Daze.
Rounding out the package is label boss Benbo, whose 'Minimal Shuffle Remix' works elements of the original into a mesmeric house groove for the deepest of the small hours.
Out from 22 June (original) and 6 July (remixes).
Praise:
"Yea this is super hot!" – Coco Cole
"What a musical trip!" – Nemone
"Love it! Looking forward to playing loud" – diskJokke
"Perfect late night jams" – billy.h
"Stunning remix that takes me to back to Shanghai via Goa and Berlin... will be playing from San Francisco to Ibiza and beyond this summer" – Disastronaut
"Excellent" – Eddy Temple Morris
"Perfect music" – Frank McWeeny
"Guys please, you release only FANTASTIC music? Absolutely HUGE EP!" – Gemini Brothers
"Rolling synth throughout, a little bit acidic... techno swings and variances... most of all it’s full of eastern promise and I like that a lot" – Mark Ryan
"Swing on that!" – Jamie George
"AWESOMEE!" – Mighty Mouse
"Dub vibes, into it!" – Nick Catchdubs
"A real dreamy track with pumped remixes ;-)" – Normski
"Exquisite" – Richard Norris
"Beautiful release" – Rory Hoy
"Niceness!" – Russell Deeks
"Sick" – Saila & Hybrid Theory
"Good this guys, the remix edges it though, just x" – The Sonic Emporium
"Remix is v v tight, 4/5" – walmer convenience
"A genuinely interesting release - will grab this for early plays in my One Series sets" – Simon Shackleton
"That viola sample is a brilliant touch to this track" –
theransomnote.co.uk
"Yup" – Tim Love Lee