Jesse Fahnestock and Darren Bell, aka Jezebell, have Volume 2 of their Jezebellearic Beats good to go. The collection comprises a colossal 20 tracks. Many of the pieces have been previously released, but across a range of labels. For even the duo’s biggest fans, there are tunes here that you may well have missed. Now all their remix commissions and cuts created for charity are together in one convenient place. 

There’s self-released stuff, like Akio Nagase’s “Acid Asia” remix of 2023’s Concurrence, the bleeping Trading Places 6AM – tailor-made for their Pikes takeover that summer – and the cute, camp Donkey from last year’s Cream Tease… plus the Italo arpeggios a-go-go of Autostrada from their Ran$om Note EP, Weekend Machines.

Of the commissions there’s a couple produced for Paisley Dark – Ian Vale’s Loft Music and Warriors of the Dystotheque’s Fitzroy Avenue – and two more at the request of Higher Love Recordings – Andres y Xavi’s Bibbles and Pandit Pam Pam’s Pass A Wish. There are also those tunes that Jesse and Darren reworked for friends – Pete Bones’ Submissive Background and Perry Granville’s Glittering Lights. – and for charity – the George Kranz meets The Soulsonic Force of Perfect Din, for Crisis, and the Mick Jones-led Dancing Not Fighting which helped raise funds for the victims of the Russian offensive in Ukraine.

There are, of course, also more than a few exclusives. Of those brand new numbers Movimento Lento is a smart slice of post-punk dub – sorta like The Orb meeting Killing Joke. A slow, low slung pulse, with seriously stoned wah-wah details, and cryptic spoken vocals. 

A Dangerous Side rides a raw house rhythm, while throwing around a catchy percussive hook. Its clanking and crashing EBM machines are countered, a little, by a plucked, string-like line. 

Hung comes with a big kick, sharp snares and a loop of scratchy, funky guitar. Its chopped up, chopped out voices call for “Revolution”. 

Everything expands the duo’s discography of druggy droid disco. Busy, bustling body-moving business, no matter the tempo – while more often than not they choose to stick to chunky chuggers. Constructed with the two’s now trademark crafty use of samples – repurposed words, bits of borrowed riffs – and trippy studio effects. Clues to the sonic sources can sometimes be found in the tune titles. Japaneasy, for instance, references the track’s coda of Nippon whispers. 

Red Black & Green is a phased and filtered edit of a beloved William Orbit rework, smashed in and out of another flamenco-flavoured Balearic favourite. 

Geo Metric flashes back to the birth of trip hop and big beat, with a boisterous blend of bluesy diva and block rocking break. Hitting heady and hypnotic in its repetition. 

The closing Turn It Yes prances on poppier percolations and packs an intentionally positive punch. While its chiming melody pays its respects to The Sabres Of Paradise’s Smokebelch II, its narrator tells us that “a single word change our reality”, and yep, that word is “Yes”. 

Jezebell’s Jezebellearic Beats Volume 2 can be ordered from Bandcamp.