Composed on the road, producer Jonathan Uliel Saldanha and vocalist/horn player Florence Nandawula's latest set is an apocalyptic fusion of '80s horror themes, gqom rhythms and p-funk fanfares.

Saldhana releases a lot, but 'Turbo Meltdown' is the Portuguese producer's most convincing set in ages. Nandawula provides a coolheaded influence, reshaping Saldhana's mutant productions with her bolshy brass arrangements (with help from Ugandan Homeland Brass Band's Kintu Jacob on trombone) and injecting much needed energy into the rhythms. Her punctuating horn blasts and clownish laughs lend genuine drama to Saldhana's pneumatic kicks and snapping, woody percussion on 'Molecular Riff', and add serious tension to the grime-y 'Phantom Room', jazzing up Saldhana's beat-em-up face-off in more ways than one. And on 'Resonance Riot' Nandawula shadows Akira Ifukube's 'Godzilla' OST, giving Saldhana's ballroom-inspired kicks the comic timing they need to truly strut.