joker: headtop

Joker returns to his own imprint, Kapsize, with Headtop, an effervescent 4-tracker laced with passive aggression. "Deserted Island" grabs most of the column inches for the trademark musicality Joker brings to bass music, but it's the title-track that is arguably the statement piece of the release, stripping back any fancy top-lines to enter the "heads" arena and dismantle it with a sub beater which shows which has a firm favorite with notoriously hard-to-please Tempa bossman, Youngsta. He enters the scene, drops "Headtop," and then leaves before doing the same with "Mario Ting" and "Mr. Miyagi."