rocket juice & the moon is the new project from damon albarn, tony allen and flea (red hot chilli peppers). obviously with albarn as the sun-like central attraction, like his gorillaz outfit, there are always a plethora of guests will to help out. on this second 10we get three of the deepest, freshest instrumentals from the imminent album - featuring the hypnotic brass ensemble on the opener leave-taking. the hbe add their customary bold brass to tony allens funky afro rhythms, fleas super-fluid bass and malian cheick tidiane seck doing some cosmic synth work. with its repetitive chant and loose-limbed, percussive, funky grooves, 1-2-3-4-5-6has a touch of the punk-funk about it - until the killer jazz-funk fusion moog swings by! lastly we have the crazy forward sweep- more afro-funk, more sleazy synths! sound-wise, this is doubly lethal, as alive and present as vinyl gets: mixed by mark ernestus, mastered and cut at d&m, manufactured at pallas.