SUBTITLED´SPECIAL Maximum Discordant Mixes', this seven track mini LP is a dynamic dancefloor delight. Not content to drill home 'hard, electronic rhythms', 'HTP' is filled to the birm with melody and an array of studio effects, ranging from heavy dub to hardcore NY dosco.

All the component parts become pure Portion Control: stylish musical collage over compulsive beats with a glance at Morricone, soulful serenades and growing speechs.

Side two's selection of tunes firmly dismisses the trudging 'whitey boho funk' that littered the radio last year. This is emotional stuff, passionate, pumping sex music that drives with every chorus. Portion Control play Kraftwerk meets Smokey Robinson with an indelible, contemporary style all of their own.

Amazingly, they're already surpassing this collection. If you take a listen to 'Chew You To Bits' - the opening cut on side one - you'd be surprised that that is even possible. Next phase 'Raise The Pulse', soon to be released through Illuminated Records, takes this coronary inducing onslaught a step further.

For now, though, this mini-LP is essential listening, and foot tapping, material. A drooling derangement of modern music, a pulsating powerhouse of emotion, it's absolute murder.

© SOUNDS 1983

Digital assistance and credit: Simon Dell <simon@stroppy.demon.co.uk>