Remember when that Swedish guy at RBMA called Theo Parrish the saviour of house music? Although Theo be the man, he was obviously talking complete shite. But he may have had a small point. In the past year we've been swamped by generic Chi-town carbon copies, none of it bad, but a lot of it rather pointless. Thankfully there are more than a few labels doing there bit to present fresh-as-fuck and interesting machine music, and DABJ are riding shotgun with the best of them, just two releases deep! After the first face-melting, sell-out cuts from Jared Wilson and the mysterious Marquis Hawkes, DABJ are showcasing another shadowy newcomer in the form of VernoN for their third slab of wax. Frenchman VernoN has certainly slowed down the pace a touch on"Chicken Dance", but nobody ever said that was a bad thing. The E.P kicks off with "She Can Dance", a slow burning acid number that has elements of deep, grooving House from the Detroit school. In fact, the second cut "Low Control" bares the influence of Detroit too, with it's murky, dubbed-out chords ala Luke Hess moving into a punchy bassline with minimal but functional drum patterns. Proceedings get a bit more bouncy on "The Smoking Hat", a quirky acid romp on the less daft side of Ceephax, and the perfect soundtrack to accompany a feature-length documentary about.... a smoking hat. Finishing up the E.P is Fudge Fingas remix of "Low Control", the only man qualified to make an already deep as fuck track even deeper. There's been some on-point criticisms about a lot recent deep stuff getting lost in noodly Jazz territory, but we're in no danger of that nonsense with Fudge Fingas at the controls: accomplished a musician he may be, he's never been one to lose the way, and this mix proves his deft and subtle remix talents. DABJ done done it again, and hopefully this is the first in a long line of productions from VernoN.