KNLB

KNLB first appeared with the Initialize 12'' on Vibraphone in July of this year, and it's not taken them long to return with another slab of on-point, upfront house music loaded with flair and imagination. ''Up Again'' is a heavy, chugging and bumping jam that should inspire all manner of screwed up faces of appreciation on the floor, and then ''Fog Machine Smell'' simmers things down to a more measured house groove. ''Half Life'' brings a few more dubby elements into the mix, and then the club mix of ''SIN'' sends the record spinning off in a wonderfully dusty reverie of detuned pianos and late-hitting drums.

• 1 Up Again
• 2 Fog Machine Smell
• 3 Half Life
• 4 SIN (club mix)