Eastend Tales produced by KUMO AKA Jono Podmore is a 6 tracker which features other veteran colleagues from the once prolific Plink Plonk label of the '90s. These remixers include Pluto (Rolo McGinty), with the Weather Bomb Remix of the original. Hijacker (Laggy Panteli) with an eerie styled acid electro remix. Eugene Black's AKA (Paul Rip) techno dub remix. Ramjac AKA (Paul Chivers delivers a jazzy dubstep remix entitled nocturnal.

Kumo Kicks off the EP with a hard-hitting techno powered acid bass track Weather Bomb and ends with a Live cut from the play performance of the Eastend Tales, written and directed by Nick Rawlings 2015. This is a suburb mixture of sound sub-genres and experiments designed to propel you into the dark and mysterious worlds of the East End of London through an interpretation of mixed musical cultures.

Kumo's Weather Bomb is driven by an acid fuelled bassline giving rise to a techno-industrial floor thumper that is a visceral mix of dark sound design and IDM. This is a killer track that retains the Kumo edginess in all its typical analogue glory. A must for any aspiring Dj to propel at the peak of their set. The mix sets precedence for the remix stage that only those involved could compliment, but not compete.
Pluto remix is much on the same vibe but with a mystical middle eastern essence and sophistication. This puts us on a psychedelic journey with its long unwinding string sequences and key changes that we are drawn to under its magical spell. This is a clever rendition on the title theme by an expert in the field of dance and musical exploration.

Hijacker delivers an acid electro mix that builds into a very dark excursion of tectronic and industrial mechanisation. This brings home the idea of controlling machines that enslave us with the sense of force behind an oppressive state. This track is what could be termed steampunk techno, its layers of sounds and noises become a collage of imaginings of a future world driven into an apocalyptic past.

Black aims at the ghetto for its underworld as a living element that finds space in the mind of an imaginary individual, a kind of exit to real life it pulsates and observes as a stalker waiting in the shadows. The change
Specimen Records 2016 of sequences bring us closer to the underlying musical humour that the East End may present with its mix of culture going about its seedy night time routines. Typical dub stabs are the metaphorical actions of a surgeon at work.

Rajmac puts together a very clever soundtrack of broken beat and acid that opens into a heavy dub-step sequence propelled from a jazz-infused mystery of the night. As if we are being mesmerised and slowly submerged into an acid bath we are dissolved in the power of its melody and quirky noises and sequences. This renders a very unique style of dance and with Ramjac's past offerings for Plink Plonk, his musical compositions have always proved to be ahead of their time.

Kumo finishes with a beautiful dub vibe that comes directly off the stage at St Michael's Croydon. The elements are a special selection of electronic programming with the use of analogue beats and synths, These were originally developed for the live sound design of the stage play. It makes an essential mix of rhythm and ethnic styles in combination with the acoustic accompaniment of mystic clarinet melody and spoken word. The mix accentuates the dark psychological space of the Eastend revealing its myopic war zones and poverty. The industrial changes and immigrant cultures that evolve over time, become a musical montage, which leaves us with a sense of open-ended possibilities. This is a mindscape, a chilled downtempo affair, abstract, esoteric and yet refined in its rawness.