METRO AREA - Fabric 43

Dance-world police have apprehended two suspects, Metro Area's Morgan "MG" Geist and Darshan "DJ" Jesrani, charged with crimes against taste stemming from their alias Babla's Disco Sensation and its "Ghar Aya Mera Pardesi" intro to this very Fabric mix. Hammier than A Night At The Roxbury though the offending track may be, I think all charges should be dropped; it is reassuring to know that these perceived hardliners can poke fun at themselves and their production process, and if its goofiness does spoil the pot for you, there's always the skip (or delete) function. On the business end of this mix, the other hour and six minutes makes for maybe the most consistent retro set of its kind since fellow New Yorkers James Murphy & Pat Mahoney handed in Fabriclive 36, speeding up the tempo a tad with more of a mid-'80s synth-boogie bent, and many 12" dubs you'd be hard-pressed to find collected elsewhere.