Room Two Vinyl & CDs

Review: Borai (Boris English) and Denham Audio (Peri Ashwood) pulled off a remarkable feat with ‘Make Me / No Good’, an unequivocal release put out on Higher Level Records in 2019. Repurposing the unmistakable hookline from Donna Allen’s G-funk jacker ‘Serious’ from 1986 into a fully re-recorded sample all their own, ‘Make Me’ set alight the feet of the breaksy raver, striking serious gold in the classic formula of easily-recognised old-school-soul vocals and sculpted tearout heft. As anthemic as its original B-side, ‘No Good’, the original latter half of the record now comes substituted by Big Ang’s Rave To The Grave mix, whose blooping trooper sound design and mains-hum Reeses provide an ecstatic alter. A can’t-go-wrong reissue by the Room Two camp.