Sydney’s Richard In Your Mind have just dropped the first release for their new label Rice Is Nice. Summertime EP is a gumbo stew of styles and instruments that feels frenetic, schizophrenic, fun and fearless.

For now at least it is a fresh blast of cut and paste indie hip hop and funk that dually serves the feet and the mind. First track Summertime Boogie (do the) is a big beat bonanza that drops into the electro proto-hip hop of Dismantilising, probably the most original and satisfying moment on the EP.

Intranaut (Return of the Space Hindu) takes us to a sitar trip-hop planet with the Bombay DJ Shadow as the pilot. Make it Chill mixes Beck, The Beastie Boys, the warped aesthetic of Ween and a nod to the delivery of contemporary MCs like Busdriver.

Gumboots stretches the patience after the first ‘that’s a clever piece of editing’ listen. Rainforest floats along on with its soothing and burbling, ambient and analog electronic soundscapes. A breath of fresh air after the spastic Gumboots.

Follow Me rounds things out nicely with an drifting psych strum that approximates late – œ60s UK pastoral pop and the quietest of the – œ80s shoegazers. It’s a gorgeous summer comedown moment after the sunburn and crashing waves found elsewhere on Summertime EP.

Summertime EP is out now on Rice Is Nice Records.