CARLOS NINO and musical partner FABIAN AMMON return with a mini -album from AMMONCONTACT, titled 'New Birth'. Heavy, funky, groove -based minimalism with a dash of cosmic Black Power politics, a love of jazz and enough bass to flatten planets - that's the Ammoncontact formula. Although to call it a formula is to deny just how many different shapes "instrumental hip hop" can be squeezed and formed into over 34 minutes. Ammoncontact once again prove the power of simplicity, of the workingman's virtues of craft and know-how over hype and inflated ego.