3 out of 5

Produced by: Meatbingo

Label: Fonolith

While certainly as glitched out and danceably-minded as his followup releases, Meatbingo’s debut – recently remastered to fantastic, crystal crisp fidelity – is a bit more winky sample heavy than his subsequent beat cut-and-pastery.  It’s skillful as all hell, and will undoubtedly induce a smile while you’re doing your sweaty club thing, but it’s also the type of quick-fill maneuver that marks it as a the artist’s first efforts.  Impressive, but blown away by more thoroughly original work to come.

You know it moves at a fast clip, though, and certainly doesn’t dawdle, meaning the energy is there and the tracks are undeniably catchy.  Pretty perfectly sized and paced for an EP.