The Balistic Brothers vs The Eccentric Afro's, Volume 1

This 1994 release — either an eight-track extended EP or a mini album, it’s entirely up to you — is a sample-heavy, sleepy-tempo audio snapshot of the mid-’90s UK downtempo/trip-hop sound, with all the overdriven, slowed-down break beats that entails. With liberal sample usage, some of the tracks here like ‘Grovers Return’ are more like re-edits or re-makes than original compositions, looping a few parts from Grover Washington’s glorious ‘Sausalito’ to create an updated dance floor killer. Overall it delivers a series of very pleasing instrumental hip-hop party tunes, dusty, revivalist jams and downtempo ’90s acid-funk.