[Sect Records]

It was pretty easy to spot the kids at school whose parents helped them with their homework. You’d be standing in front of the class proudly displaying your latest portrait of a family member, your sister’s limbs appearing miraculously from her amorphous blob of a body, her hair five shocked strands of pencil colored wire. Then one of the so-called wunderkinds steps up with a perfectly executed scene of their entire family at the dinner table, lounging with some air of ethereal pre-Raphaelite grace, their togas delicately draped to preserve their modesty. And so it is with the latest from Sect Records, whose third release is supposedly the result of the pre-pubescent offspring of two of techno’s finest producers. Rennie Foster’s twin girls (Dahlia and Mariko), although not even in double digits yet, are supposedly behind the immaculate, uplifting disco tech of “Butterscotch.” Kalimba-like percussion and breezy flutes are met by dramatic orchestral sweeps and a solid, funking bass, and despite the sum of its parts it never comes across as cheese laden. You’d be hard placed to find a clubber not eagerly engaged by this track.

DJ Bone’s own little protégé is a few years older but at the tender age of twelve, it’s somewhat hard to believe Aleckxis Jaina has taken so many of her father’s creative traits that she can make the same spine tingling techno with such derivative precision. All of the classic Bone elements are present: skipping, propulsive hi-hats and wriggling, demented melodies all encased in a soft womb of pads. There’s really no faulting either of these tracks and Sect Records comes away with another winner for their short but increasingly impressive discography. But you’ve got to wonder how much of the music these youngsters can really claim here (for the part of Aleckxis aka The Future, her bio points to her being the real deal). I guess we’ll find out when they start doing live PA’s.