It’s a tribute to the first pop star of the rave generation that Adamski’s name still rings a bell today. He hasn’t made much music since his early-90s heyday of NRG and Killer, and indeed the last comment on his Discogs profile – predicting a comeback – was in 2003. Here he is in 2015 though, releasing a double album that falls somewhere between acid house, trip-hop, minimal techno and, well, waltz music (rebranded as “three step”). As the list of ingredients might suggest, Revolt has the capacity to surprise and bemuse. Spin pairs garage vocals with Italo piano and a kinetic rhythm in fresh, street-ready fashion; the partnership of pulsing bass and squeezebox on Roof of the World sounds like someone trying to reprise the works of Kurt Weill in the circus tent on a Glastonbury Sunday. There’s also features six minutes of Lee “Scratch” Perry berating organised religion, a breakbeat rework of the Stranglers’ Golden Brown, and a decent stab at Prodigy pop on Pump Up the Walls. It may be hit-and-miss, and at 20 tracks it’s far too long, but Revolt is brave and funny – not a bad attempt at making that name linger a little longer.
