Фирма Jakarta Records

What did you expect the outcome of a collaboration between Mike Fabulous and James Milne, AKA Lawrence Arabia, to sound like? If it isn’t what you hear on the pair’s debut album, Unlimited Buffet, you’ve probably never heard either musician before, or you were hoping for a sea change that was unlikely from the outset. But what it sounds like isn’t what’s surprising about this unexpected coupling; it’s that what you hear actually sounds quite good. Mike Fabulous is perhaps best well known for his work with The Black Seeds, as well as being very much a part of the Fly My Pretties collective. It’s his fingerprints that leave the most obvious mark on the album, with smatterings of funk and soul illustrated by loose bass, drumming that is heavy on the ride cymbal and an obligatory horn section. Add Milne’s idiosyncratic vocal and the outcome recalls what David Bowie referred to as “plastic soul”, perfect for a generation used to plastic reproductions of eras past. While Fabulous knows his Record Label: Jakarta Style: Electronic