RP Boo's fourth album for Planet Mu looks back to the foundation of Chicago's juke and footwork scene. While his releases throughout the 2010s took footwork to its outer limits, with confounding sample twists and frenetic triple-time beats, some of the tracks on Established! are slower, more spaced out, and closer to the genre's house roots. "All My Life" builds up from a simple kick drum and piano notes, with Boo continually remarking "All my life I love to dance." "How 2 Get It Done!" sticks gliding 4/4 beats under expertly diced Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg samples, increasing the pressure by focusing on extended repetitions of key moments. Several tracks continue with footwork's tradition of battle tracks. Boo taunts his detractors during "Haters Increase the Heat!," feeding off their negative energy and making his own music more pumped up. Later tracks such as "Just Like That!" and "Now U Know!" are much more confrontational, with rapid bursts of expletive-heavy samples firing over throbbing beats and smoother samples that only make things more tense. "All Over" is essentially nothing more than a footwork edit of Phil Collins' "I Don't Care Anymore," but it's one of the album's most defiant songs. Other tracks are similar in composition yet more celebratory. "Finally Here" excitedly welcomes you into the dance with boisterous cheers, piled-on samples, and acid synth lines. Like many other RP Boo tracks, it samples Class Action's post-disco staple "Weekend," which is given a more thorough spin-cycle during "Another Night to Party," easily the most purely gleeful cut on the album. The biggest change of pace on the record is "Beauty Speak of Sounds," a slower, more introspective track filled with crickets and hand drums, in which Boo envisions himself "dancing on the grasslands of Africa." The most diverse RP Boo release to date, Established! finds the innovative producer stepping back and observing the big picture, and reflecting on his place in the lineage of dance music. ~ Paul Simpson, Rovi

1		All My Life
2		How 2 Get It Done!
3		Haters Increase the Heat!
4		Oh!
5		Finally Here
6		All Over
7		Just Like That!
8		Be of It!
9		Now U Know!
10		Ivory Surface
11		Beauty Speak of Sounds
12		Another Night to Party

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