The tracks of One Planet At A Time (apart from one) are all named after fictional planets – an apt metaphor for Blue Ducks’ second outing on Records On Ribs. While the record remains a beautifully cohesive mixtape, each track is a distinctive world, filled with crisp chords, alien glitches, skillfully judged pace-changes, 8-bit chirps and soaring pitch bends that could be out of the Hemlock records playbook. Ready For Remulak rolls a Nintendo melody over reflective, almost sorrowful, chords. New Genesis brings attack while Indigo Prime floats gorgeous backmasked vocals over cool beats. In Falling Asleep In Fhloston Paradise woozy synths drift gorgeously over Dilla schooled drums. Set the gapless playback and let it roll – perfect.

Artwork by George Bletsis

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Six is witness to the pure joy of hip-hop as a genre, nodding in the direction to Dilla’s soulful warmth, off centre beats and eccentric production yet combining this with the electronic moods and glitched detail that recalls Prefuse 73 and the recent bouncy post-dubstep output of Hyperdub. Its brevity is its virtue: snappy, catchy and riotously inventive, the panic of Floss Hates Prime Numbers opening into the reflective spaces of Farewell To Floss while the heady party of Floss Is Full Of Surprises swaggers on.

For fans of Dilla, Madlib, Prefuse 73, Zomby, Rustie and aqua-crunk, short attention spans.

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