Deft dub veteran David Harrow has a history of working with poets. His first club smashes were collaborations with Anne Clark, and while part of the On-U Sound family he also teamed up with Little Annie Anxiety. It was David who programmed Annie`s 1992 LP, Short And Sweet, which is packed with fine funky alternatives, such as Bless Those, Give It To Me, and You The Night And The Music. Milk Bar / Cafe del Mar DJ Phil Mison made I Think Of You a Balearic classic. This new E.P. finds David, some 30 years later, back with Annie (not Ann) again, providing electro-funk accompaniment while Ms. Anxiety lists signs of the End Of Times. Expertly adding techno koto timbres, sinister squelches, and twisting TB-303 lines, as she wonders if “we`ve all lost our fucking minds.” Referencing that On-U connection, by echoing Gary Clail paraphrasing Public Enemy, with a hook of “How low can we go?”

There are a total of twelves mixes, but the standouts for me come from Mark Ratcliff`s Rude Audio. His Protean take is a pumping ALFOS-amenable march. Boasting a boisterous bleep melody, and details such as spinbacks, and Weatherall & Nicolson`s favourite timbale, it throws acid house shapes over an increasingly manic chug. Mark`s Immutable version is far, far slower. The music sedated, gated, and serrated by a razor sharp riff from what might have once been a guitar. The sound of bells tolling synergising with its booming, bruising beats.

David Harrow & Little Annie`s End Of Times can be purchased here.