Sky Break

Moscow DJ and producer Lay-Far enlisted a team of musicians to help mould this quality collection of hybrid broken beats, jazz funk, rare groove, disco, funk, house and breaks into a smooth, cohesive, head-nodding, contemporary-sounding album. Sparkling Rhodes keys, neat, clipped funk guitar licks, live drums, bass and percussion, topped with sax and flute, all meld together with low-level, under-the-bonnet sampology into slick, steady grooves in various dance-floor derived flavours. There’s a boom bap soundtrack-esque cut, some soaring drum & bass-style productions, jazzy broken beat, flowing, swinging jazz dance, lots of decent musicianship, absolutely smoking rhythm tracks, and a nice, clean, fresh sheen across the whole production. A lush, light, club-derived funk-fusion treat of an album.