Shampain – Catching Up With Myself

The title of Shampain’s debut EP ‘Catching Up With Myself’ feels appropriate, both musically and as a way to describe the Galway artist’s career. He’s torn through clubland for the past decade without ever releasing a record. But now he distills his irreverent approach to dance music dogma into five tracks. There is everything from funky, blown-out hardgroove (‘Repetitive Brain Injury’) to sensuous trance revivalism (‘One Royal Morning’) to a track I can only describe as ‘horror movie dubstep’ (‘Based Against Time’). ‘Catching Up With Myself’ is a thrilling and whiplash-inducing joyride through the outer fringes of the club cosmos.