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The Mole. Is he a secret agent of espionage infiltrating the Canadian cool scene with his particular brand of hi-energy electro house? Or just a small pimple on the smooth unblemished skin of Wagon Repair. I prefer to think of him as a cute little underground mammal with minimal ears and pinprick eyes with poor vision for daylight and a propensity for dark corners.

Baby You're the One is a classic piece of fluffy flavoured disco house with a repetitive vocal strap that if you're not humming by the 4th or 5th minute, will reverberate around the inside of your head for aeons. Or at least until you wish the bloody Mole would go right back in his hole with his utterly addictive hook lines. There's enough early 90's rave resonances to keep this thirteen and a half minutes on the right side of Christmas but as camp-ness goes it's not far off.

'Crackbeat' would insinuate by its title that the Mole had been partaking of the pipe in the process of producing the B side, it certainly sounds intense enough... Considering that Colin de la Plante is the programming magician behind Modern Deep Left Quartet (the other 3 are also known as Cobblestone Jazz), it's no wonder that the strongest impression is that this is a live piece laid down in vinyl. Cinematic almost in the structure of the track and definitely too epic for most dance-floors, both these track will come alive if you were to see them as part of a live set… which I guess is what tends to come through most Wagon Repair releases. Perhaps the Mole is not such an underground creature. Wait for the album due out in May.