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For the opening EP from Too Many Squares, Frank butters manages to gene-splice together the raw DNA from all of the ugly-beautiful sounds present in the birth of modern dance music. -Conditioning for Solitude- is the hum of dark tubes, the slice and hiss of sharp synthesised percussion and the scream of blissful dementia. The mutant that existed for a brief and joyous frozen moment while disco was still birthing house. -Body Burn” is the tropics with a black sun and Africanism with a stopwatch instead of a heart. Recalling experimentalist forays by the likes of Liaisons Dangereuses, Patrick Cowley and Karen Finley, the 2 originals on offer manage to recall the raw passion of an era without feeling contrived or derivative. The EP is rounded off by Sheila Fleurraters remix of * 3 Minute Warning* which continues the pioneer-ist motif, albeit allying itself with a much more early industrial aesthetic.