If this were 1985 and not 2010, Justin Long and Mazi (aka Audio Soul Project) would be the subject of a strange, cult-like following in Europe as these two shadowy guys from Chicago that craft the most incredible beats, pulling the strangest sounds out of the atmosphere and fusing them into bytes and acetate.
Dustbin Boogie Woogie on Mazi's Fresh Meat Records puts their freakish audio creations on full display as a kind of modern day homage to the jacktrack.
If you think you need soaring diva vocals to make something that speaks to your soul, you're sorely mistaken: there's nothing but a couple of sparse samples here and they're beaten down into the rhythm as another piece of percussion in their arsenal. No better example of this than in the snaking groove of this 3 track EP, "One Eye Open":
