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If you got into Last Step’s vintage sounds of 1961, this album throws in a bit more dubstep and rave retro as favoured by the likes of Mary Ann Hobbs.

Despite his name and associations with Scandanavia Records, Landstrumm is Scottish and this is his second album for Planet Mu following on from Restaurant Of Assassins. That album featured the Ragga Twins and Si Begg and Lord For £39 is in a very similar vein.

Once again, the star of Karen P…Broadcasting and expert in the experimental techno, breaks, dubstep, electro areas, Si Begg joins in on a couple of dark dubsteppers, the opener ‘Transmission’ and the late night ‘£20 To Get Home’.

And when Landstrumm isn’t releasing material in his own name, together with Tobias Schmidt they have a project called Sugar Experiment Station. They’ve both released tracks on the highly influential Tresor label from Berlin and they’ve teamed up for a track called ‘Little Help From Rustie’ which is a deep bass space ship of a ride heading for computer game console.

If you like your dubstep bass heavy with some ragga-break-rave (like a Stereotyp without soul), try ‘Old Rabbits’ and ‘Category D’.

Not sure what ‘Easter Krunk Power’ is all about; ‘Witches Butter’ is quite speaker blowing, ‘The King Of Malta’ is a rare (relatively) gentle moment before it picks up speed and ‘Dirty Butcher’ is downtempo bass heavy werp, werp track.

John Peel’s much missed voice turns up on right at the end of the CD but definitely a couple of the best tracks is when MC Profisee joins in on the electro warper slash Ragga Twin ‘Nike Volume’; ravin up the Blass Clef sound and, whilst on the subject, Carlton “Killawatt” Valley kicks the bins with ‘Shit Daddy Bass’. Worth getting the album for these two tracks alone but with so much more to boot!

Out on Monday and there’s a few live dates planned which would be well worth trying to catch.

Forthcoming Live Dates:
29 Nov 2008 - Kingpin, Bristol
05 Dec 2008 - Big Toes Hi Fi, Wee Red Bar, Edinburgh
06 Dec 2008 - kurzschluss @ sackfabrik, Magdeburg
13 Dec 2008 - Tresor Bunker
20 Dec 2008 - Dublin
26 Dec 2008 - Electric Underground, Cork

For a Neil Landstrumm 101 pre-Lord For £39 with his views on techno, Warp, dubstep, d’n’b, club culture, personality cults and glitter balls check out Slices Issue 1.08 with interview filmed at filmed at the famous Tressor Club, Belin (that’s recently had a mega speaker fit out since so the gig on the 13th is going to be even better than ever).

Reviewed: Neil Landstrumm - Lord For £39 (Planet Mu) Cat. No. ZIQ206 (CD / 3 ×12”) Release date: 1st December 2008
Tracklisting:
1 Transmission (with Si Begg) (4:02)
2 Easter Krunk Power (2:46)
3 Shit Daddy Bass (with Carlton Killawatt) (1:59)
4 Old Rabbits (3:54)
5 Little Help From Rustie (with Tobias Schmidt [SES]) (3:35)
6 Dirty Butcher (2:23)
7 King Of Malta (3:45)
8 £20 To Get Home (with Si Begg) (4:36)
9 Category D (3:33)
10 The Dose (with Ebola) (3:13)
11 Nike Volume (with Profisee) (4:12)
12 Witches Butter (1:46)
13 Mask Of Musk (3:57)
14 Ross Kemp As Pixel (3:47)

Links
www.myspace.com/neillandstrumm
www.scandinavianyc.com
www.myspace.com/808tobiasschmidt808
www.sibegg.com
www.myspace.com/sibegg
www.sibegg.com/noodles/index.htm
www.myspace.com/carltonkillawattvalleychariot
www.myspace.com/mcprofisee
www.planet-mu.com
www.myspace.com/childrenofmu
www.tresorberlin.com
http://www.myspace.com/tresorberlin
Mary Ann Hobbs :: Friday 24 November 2006 :: Neil Landstrumm Scandanavia Ravestep live session
Neil Landstrumm & Si Begg - ‘Lung Dub’ (Scandanavia)
www.dubstepforum.com
www.myspace.com/sensemedia
www.eb-slices.net
Tressor Club, Belin www.tressorberlin.de