Acid Disk - G Jones, Eprom

The good: Longtime collaborators G Jones and Eprom, known for their offbeat acid style, come together to create the "Acid Disk" collaborative EP, a project packed with — you guessed it — a ton of acid. They slam basslines down, distorted and processed and concentrated in all the good ways, in a precariously unsettling manner, yet a manner that's bound to impress. This is experimental and creative stuff. Note: Since both producers exchange tracks, the track ranking is labelled with whoever is on each track, rather than being actual collaborators.

The bad: Experimental and creative stuff only take you so far. Granted, they take "Acid Disk" pretty damn far, but perhaps not far enough — sometimes the mixdowns are a little too harsh for my ears, and sometimes the leads' sound design can sound all too familiar in the context of the record.