Malcolm Catto is a British musician and deep-funk maniac/ record collector/ DJ who has been spending increasing amounts of time at the trap set in the last couple of years (check his previous MoWax releases). This 12" EP consists of 4 tracks from the fictitious (and x-rated) "Blood's Haul" soundtrack, and accordingly features Catto and the Now Again stable indulging in the expected nasty, dirty throwback funk familiar to fans of labels like Soul Fire. Here though, the distortion-heavy circa-1970 grooves are combined with a kind of wide angle, almost eerie film noir soundtrack vibe, most notably on "The Shadows Of Leaves(1)." "Connie's Thing(2)" plays directly to the obsessions of breakbeat hounds, consisting entirely of loud, flanged-out fatback drums courtesy of Mr. Catto. Flipside continues in a similar vein, with breaks galore on both "Double Dutch(3)" and "Attack Of The Killer Penguins(4)."

reviewed by gregcaz