Offen Music’s latest offering is an excellent EP from young Glaswegian DJ / producer Pigeon Steve. Featuring 5 damn, fine funky, chugging, chunky dance floor cuts that all ride modern, mutated electro rhythms. Green Industry, for instance, opens with atmospheric rattle, reverb and echoed voices, and moves through a carefully constructed maze of arpeggios and chiming melodies, revealing itself to be dark, driving, moody downtempo monster. 

A Pretty Big Stretch takes those robotic beats and adds computerised congas and cowbells. Colouring the resulting, considerable groove with gated, puckered proclamations. Stuttered synthetic scatting. The track’s title, perhaps, coming from a central, manhandled vocal sample. Synths spin in icy spirals. Bleeps and blips hit like a machined marimba.

Who Kicked The Ceiling And How’d You Do It increases the tempo. Intense and receptive, its main hook is a snippet of an answerphone service – a la the house mix of Kraftwerk’s Der Telefon Anruf – while its bottom end boom is surely an tribute to the Miami bass genre. 

Gusto Galactica has a live, improvised feel. Seemingly building its drama sort of on the fly, out of hypnotic loops. Flinging around details, such as distant, delayed scratching, fidgeting frequencies, party whistles and seismic snares.

The quality of all 5 numbers ain’t up for debate, Unboxing A Mantis Shrimp, however, is a standout. Stuffed with acidic squelches, snaking reed-like riffs, warrior shouts and whoops, urgent, yet remaining mid-tempo, this really lifts off as a tribal, trance-inducing thump of traditionally toned percussion takes over. 

Pigeon Steve’s I Will Have A Think can be ordered directly from Offen Music.