While Woodleigh Research Facility and Byrd Out have been friends and allies since at least 2017, Vous Du Music is the outfit’s first release on the label under their own moniker. The E.P., pressed on pink vinyl, features 3 tracks, and 1 remix. All of the riddims ride a retro Roland TR-808 tick, rattle and boom.

Between Two Waves mixes jeep-shaking Miami Bass with the motorik kosmische of Neu! and La Dusseldorf. Cyborgs smashing cymbals beneath a choppy lead key melody and washes of sonic splashes. The tune, already full of stop, starts, and breakdowns, is further rocked by bursts of tumbling digital Oberheim DMX timpani.

Tempesta is more urgent. Racing synth-pop arpeggios and pace-y snare patterns defining a slice of dark, industrial dance, stuffed with scratching effects and old school electro details. A bionic B-boy battle track that slyly tips its hat to classic acts like Cybotron and Newcleus.

Vous Du, a rework of an Erick Legrand tune, is already hallowed in certain circles. More than a few folks have been waiting years for this to be released, after Andrew Weatherall played it while sitting in for Iggy Pop on 6Music. A marvellous moment of modern acid house, muted, morphing, melodic, and hypnotic, it’s like the missing link between DJ Pierre, Phuture and Chris & Cosey’s Dancing Ghosts. It’s a big tune, without resorting to balls-out banging, however, Timothy J. Fairplay’s remix can only be referred to, in Timothy’s own vernacular / argot, as “Klarting”. Stamping, stomping, the 303 snarling, its knobs twisted far harder, he transforms the track into new beat-flavoured proto-techno. Adding laser guns, tribal tom toms and multiple new synth-lines. Directing the action toward seedier, more shadowy corners of the dancefloor.

Woodleigh Research Facility’s Vous Du Music can be ordered directly from Byrd Out.