Critiques CD: 2562 | Fever

For Fever, dubstep/techno producer Dave Huismans (a.k.a. 2562) repurposes disco samples from the ‘70s and ‘80s, reshaping them into forms unlike anything heard at Paradise Garage or Studio54. His broken beats crush and cut up disco lines – a track like “Cheater” takes the funk and hardens it into sharp, hard shards of rhythm more cracked than coke. 11 smokin’ tracks spin in and out of control, joyful yet disruptive in their liquid sonic psychosis. There’s only the faintest whiff of disco, despite the source material peaking through in the occasional rhythm or warped groove. A delightfully sick bit of dancefloor deviance.