Layo and Bushwacka! have come a long way from the teenager who frequented Clink Street's infamous acid parties and the kid who dropped classical music to hang out on the hardcore scene. They've both served their time supporting British underground music when no-one wanted to know. Layo by opening his purpose-built club The End, dedicated to breaking new music to the right people. Matthew jacking in a lucrative career as a rave circuit DJ when the moody music had gone too far for him, both taking the emergent strains of techno, tech-house, electro and breakbeat and forcing them together with the blues, classical and film soundtracks of the last hundred years to create the dance floor sound of the new century. <P> Now their second album 'Night Works' takes their blueprint onto a bigger, broader canvas. All the elements that worked about 'Low Life' and singles like the breakbeat blues of 'Deep South' here - there's still the adherence to low end theory basslines, but thistime wrapped in a comfort blanket of synapse-tweaking soft chords. In a year that's already crowded with cracking dance, stand by for the latest nomination for the end-of-year awards.
