It doesn’t take much to bring me round in the morning. Some chunky parping horns, the uplifting harmonies of a gospel choir, some loose, baggy beats and some scratchy stop-start stuff. That’s my morning glory. And that’s what kicks off this little DJ mix from Harmless Records – one of the first UK connoisseur collector’s labels to showcase the most crazy and influential artists from around the world and truss them up in a nice little mix series that features some of the most talked-about talent emerging from the underground. So amongst the grime and the scourge of harder, darker cuts like the Scratch Pervert’s ‘Freaks’ and Vex’d’s affectionately titled, ‘Bollocks’ you have no shortage of effects hungry space-balls like, ‘Drop’ and ‘Rize Up’ from the Chemical Brothers plus funky soul-fingers like ‘Just’ from Mark Ronson (that now famous Radiohead cover) and sauncy, spunky allsorts like Spank Rock’s ‘Bump’. So there it is: a curiosity shop of Hip-hop, Breakbeat, Drum & Bass, House and Techno with names as varied and wide as Dubbledge, Queens Of The Stone Age, Roots Manuva, and Sebastien.