Youandewan, Velvet Velour – The Brane 002

Six years after Youandewan christened the Brane label with a now impossible-to-find EP, the imprint finally returns to stores. This time round it’s a split affair, with his tracks on the A-side and two by Velvet Velour on the flip. Youandewan first delivers ‘Cheap Lust’, a lovely combination of ultra-deep and dreamy pads, warped bass, locked-in house drums and tech-tinged noises, before opting for a sleazier and wilder flex on the breakbeat-driven, garage-influenced ‘On A Hired Sofa’. Those garage-influences come to the fore on Velvet Velour’s ‘OK’ – think shuffling, loose-limbed 4/4 drums, mutant UKG bass and sparse melodic motifs – while ‘I Need Juice’ is a bouncy slab of UKG/tech-house fusion.