various: glasgow. london. new york. edinburgh

This EP, featuring tracks from Glasgow, London, New York, and Edinburgh, opens with the broken, percussive, spine-tingling "Endless Plains," the debut of Glasgow DJ Beta. London's L/F/D/M, who delivered the first release on Optimo Trax, returns under the modified moniker Love's Flaccid Disco Muscle "3am at the Aqua Disco" -- bass heaviness with an almost exotica-style lead line. The eight-minute depth-charge "Culture Full Circle" by New York's Alex Burkat (now relocated to Philadelphia) features a mutated sample from a legendary reggae track before Modini (Neil Landstrumm and Alan Parley) close with "Ghost Seducer," which delivers bass, dub, and bleeps, 21st-century-style.