Knightlife

The 12\'' takes off with Serves You Right, a whole other level of regal sophistifunk. It’s a workout of vigorous percussive energy, classic clav shapes, and for the first and one suspects not last time in the Knightlife oeuvre, vocals.

The flipside is Otherway, itself another new look for Sir Mike. Taking queues from classic techno and early sample-based house, Otherway builds a beast out of the bones of dance music, a looping, building up and breaking down, finely tuned slab of sample stabs wonderfully attuned to a timeless dancefloor.

On the remix tip, Emperor Machine takes to Serves Your Right with a massive lance and slays a giant bubbling analogue dragon of a remix, as is his wont.

• 1 serves you right
• 2 other way
• 3 serves you right (emperor machine remix)