Cargo Records

Super Roots 8

Super Roots 8 finds the group tackling the theme to the Japanese TV show "Jungle Taitei."

It would seem that they took the title literally, as the otherwise majestic track is sliced into thousands of pieces by 250 BPM beyond-gabber drum programming. Yann Tomita's blissed out "Laughter Robot's Hemp Mix" helps to bring the track back to earth, with spacy, phased percussion and heavy electronic dub passages. It's the only selection in the entire collection touched by outside influence, a trend that would surface again with the Rebore series of remixes that followed the Super Roots recordings.