Layo & Bushwacka!

Forget about warming up: Night Works cuts to the club early on with the bongo-driven "Shining Through." "We Meet at Last" starts the surreal, it-may-be-time-to-go-home phase, before "All Night Long" provides a second wind. But it's the lush "Love Story" that's absolutely essential here -- its warm pianos and dreamy synths create a cozy womb of blissful suspension.

Layo and Bushwacka's debut album, Low Life (1999), is a multi-faceted work that features a
different mood on each track from tech-house to straight house, ambient-y trip hop to
drum-n-bass, breakbeats and tribal rhythms. On their latest release, Nightworks, the
break-tech duo hone their musical chops using all the varied elements on Low Life, but
having every genre represented on each track. Keeping the album under an ho... More >