Glasgow based artist Werkha isn't easy to pigeonhole. Happy to hop from upfront tropical bouncers to woozy, low-slung rollers, he's constantly changing musical focus. Which is quite good really because the world's a monotonous, bland, boring place most of the time so the last thing any of us need or want is another bloke who makes records that sound like the records someone else made fifteen years ago but not quite as good as those records were in the first place.His new EP, City Shuffle, rolls into the world late next month and it's a doozy. Backed with remixes from Scratcha DVA, Tom Blip and Contours, it's got us daydreaming about disposable barbecues and underdone sausages and cans in the park and tennis and 99s and the smell of suncream on flesh and pink-hued tower blocks squinting into the dusk and grass-burns and boating lakes and dew. Well, most of it has.Scratcha DVA's remix of Julie Adenuga favourite "The Invincible" is one of those slow-motion, gravity-free bass-heavy objects that seems to exist in a different dimension to the one we're currently pottering around in. This is space-age, space-cadet stuff, dub beamed straight out from one of Jupiter's moons. As Werkha himself puts it, "Shifting the context of a tune is one of the most exciting things about remixes, and this is abstract, bassy, spacey, uptempo, heavy: true Scratcha."The City Shuffle EP drops on April 22nd via Tru Thoughts. Pre-order it here or here.Follow Werkha on Facebook // SoundCloud // Twitter
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