There is something quite subtle and playful about the work of Conrad Newholmes, very much operating in a world of downtempo instrumental hip hop, yet simultaneously embracing and somehow transcending the increasingly tired and cluttered genre......Without exception everything feels tightly controlled and carefully arranged. And every track operates on a different level from the one that preceded it -from smoky trip hop to electro disco funk to winsome emotional skitterishness or agoraphobic breakbeats with silly quirky combinations of sound worlds. The only links between his vibrant and energetic worlds are the hip-hop beats....