- wAFF announced himself last year with "Jo Johnson," a riotous house jam that sounded like a tennis match played with iron bars. "Puke It Up" finds him slide across from Hot Creations to its sub-label label, Hot Trax, but there's not a whole lot of difference in approach. This is pumped-up, good time techno with so much going on that at times it's almost oppressive.
At its core is a constant, pogoing barrage of toms and crushing hi-hats, to which wAFF patches in an assault of clattering keys, express-train horns and masses of delay, as if he's going all out to make you submit. Subtle? No, but he succeeds in his aim. Such is the A-side's intensity, "Love" could have been in danger of feeling anti-climactic, but wAFF keeps his heel pressed to your chest. There are frantic cowbells, bludgeoning kicks, looped ragga snippets and a prolonged breakdown. wAFF's 21st rave music is rather irresistible here.
Tracklist A Puke It Up
B Love