Join the Dots reaches it's dirty dozen in the form of Leeds based noiseniks 'Death on the Balcony'. After a year of rather big releases, hanging out with Wolf & Lamb, Soul Clap and other assorted cool cats and playing a hectic schedule of gigs across the world that literally saw fans throwing themselves (from a ruddy great height apparently) at our boys they now contribute DOT012 to the JTDs family. Whilst being described as everything from disco, house, deep techno and any number of other pointless monikers (these are just their own descriptions we should add). Death on the Balcony have you could say come home to roost. Think of us as their crash mat, their safety harness, their bungee cord. We are going to look after them whilst they just sit back and admire the view. Whether they are moon lovers or have had an experience of being caught in a rip-tide, dragged out to sea and marooned on a dessert island with nothing but a generator, a macbook pro and a copy of Reason, lead track "Change In The Tide" name aside, contains nothing to link it with either experience, whilst "Far From Home" continues the marooned on a desert island theme but is actually a huge star-gazer tune, stacked with soaring vocals and kick that whilst hidden under the layers of synth action is never lost again. The B side heads further down the to the low end of the bass spectrum. Both tracks could be described as "chugging". 'Look To Higher Ground' would be the perfect place from which to catch sight of passing ships whilst it is also is flooded with the darker side of cosmic influences, voices flutter, riding the groove, all of which is whipped massively into shape by growling bass line. 'Visions' being the effect of sunstroke is also a piano laden bass driven throdder (as opposed to thrapper), a ton of reverb and looped vocal and yet more piano stabs. It's a choice piece of warm up gear if ever there was one. a1 Death On The Balcony - Change In The Tide a2 Death On The Balcony - Far From Home b1 Death On The Balcony - Look To Higher Ground b2 Death On The Balcony - Visions