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Late Night Trip - Lake Haze - UTTU
You don't need to actually care or know anything about producers to enjoy their music. In fact, if I looked into UTTU's latest signing, Lake Haze further I'd probably find something to disapprove of, but his bolshy sense of stabby melody sounds like classic Zomby on 'Late Night Trip'. Even though it's pretty much exactly the same four-note riff on the flip, 'Need For Speed', it's all a bit of a romp that serves a pretty familiar purpose.
You don't need to actually care or know anything about producers to enjoy their music. In fact, if I looked into UTTU's latest signing, Lake Haze further I'd probably find something to disapprove of, but his bolshy sense of stabby melody sounds like classic Zomby on 'Late Night Trip'. Even though it's pretty much exactly the same four-note riff on the flip, 'Need For Speed', it's all a bit of a romp that serves a pretty familiar purpose.
Red Hot - Cappo & Nappa - King Underground Records
Oh maaan, what a fantastic piece of music - a beautiful swell of strings, ringing rhodes, sublime jazzy touches, Cappo really showing what a unique voice he has and Nappa proving yet again that as a producer he's a great LISTENER as well as creator. Wonderful stuff that seems to bring summer on with each surging second. Lap it up and hold tight for the soon-come 'Rebel Base' album.
Oh maaan, what a fantastic piece of music - a beautiful swell of strings, ringing rhodes, sublime jazzy touches, Cappo really showing what a unique voice he has and Nappa proving yet again that as a producer he's a great LISTENER as well as creator. Wonderful stuff that seems to bring summer on with each surging second. Lap it up and hold tight for the soon-come 'Rebel Base' album.
Flight - Moonbeam feat Leusin - Black Hole Recordings
More hyper-enigmatic deep trance absorption from the Russian duo. With all its enrapturing beguile, Leusin's vocal does somewhat steal the show across 'Flight's 'Original' and 'Club Mix'. Sensing an opportunity perhaps, Michael Calderone tips the tempo and tone scales in favour of a mix more playable (I suspect) by more mainline DJs. Perfectly measured, it becomes this release's weapon of choice.
More hyper-enigmatic deep trance absorption from the Russian duo. With all its enrapturing beguile, Leusin's vocal does somewhat steal the show across 'Flight's 'Original' and 'Club Mix'. Sensing an opportunity perhaps, Michael Calderone tips the tempo and tone scales in favour of a mix more playable (I suspect) by more mainline DJs. Perfectly measured, it becomes this release's weapon of choice.
Blaow - Nametag & Nameless - Brick Records
Had to keep checking this, turning it off, turning it back on, to make sure that what I was hearing was what they intended. At first the way the beat comes in over this strange shard of Americana-touched bliss-pop just sounds WRONG - as the track progresses that wrongness doesn't dissipate but does start to make a weird kind of wonky sense, especially cos the rhymes seem entirely oblivious to the musical mayhem underneath. On the flip check out the comparatively conventional but still odd 'Namecheck' and wait for the album 'For Namesake' armed with tranq darts and a butterfly net. Here be madness.
Had to keep checking this, turning it off, turning it back on, to make sure that what I was hearing was what they intended. At first the way the beat comes in over this strange shard of Americana-touched bliss-pop just sounds WRONG - as the track progresses that wrongness doesn't dissipate but does start to make a weird kind of wonky sense, especially cos the rhymes seem entirely oblivious to the musical mayhem underneath. On the flip check out the comparatively conventional but still odd 'Namecheck' and wait for the album 'For Namesake' armed with tranq darts and a butterfly net. Here be madness.
