Double LP
Enigmatic Manchester DJ Michael J. Blood has been kicking around in the public consciousness for nearly a decade now, releasing a slew of music via NTS guest spots and a variety of self-operated labels. Nonetheless, his recent signing to the legendary Peacefrog feels like a re-introduction of sorts, the new partnership providing the opportunity to bring together a selection of 12 otherwise hard-to-find productions from the archives. If you didn’t know much about the man’s music until now, then Cause and Effect is unequivocal in its presentation, revealing Blood to be a well-schooled aficionado of both Chicago and Detroit, operational in that overlapping interzone of house euphoria, techno futurism, deep house sensuality and Parrish-styled jazz-FWD invention. In short, Blood is both a scholar and a carrier of the spirit, well attuned and lovingly locked in. The suffixed Vol. 1 in the title suggests there’s more to come with Peacefrog. You can’t imagine a much appropriate label for the task, one of those ‘makes perfect sense’ unions you can’t understand took this long to happen.
FFO: Chicago. Detroit. Manchester
