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| | Having impressed with a couple of on-point singles last year, D.KO Records founder Mezigue deivers his debut album. As you'd probably expect, it's an entertaining and subtly eclectic affair, with the French producer giddily flitting between loose, jazz-funk influenced house jams, sweaty ghetto-house (see "Accunes Nouvelles D'Alexis"), electrofunk-fuelled "braindance" business, jazzy techno, boogie-tinged deep house, acid-fired Aphex Twin style madness and drowsy, organ-rich electro. It's an arresting and largely off-kilter affair, but one loaded with neat musical touches. For example, barely a track passes without Meringue tweaking an acid bassline or laying down a kaleidoscopic, boogie style synthesizer solo. | |
| | Bessungen-based Lukas Lehmann made his digital download debut a decade ago, making this follow-up one of the most belated in history. Hopefully, the This is Why EP will be a springboard to further success, because it's really rather good. He kicks things off with "Q&H", a springy, loose and attractive house cut rich in disco style Clavinet lines, bustling bass, tumbling synthesizer lines and the kind of mind-altering organ solos that made Jaydee's "Plastic Dreams" so irresistible. Elsewhere, "So Fragile" wraps cascading, twinkling electronic melodies around a chunky, piano-heavy deep house groove, while "Nothing But a Heartache" is that rarest of beasts: a melancholic disco-house cut. Speaking of disco-house, Lorenz Rhode's rework of "Q&H" is a slap-bass boasting treat. | |
| | Brame & Hamo rose to prominence in 2015 on the back of inspired EPs for Heist and Dirt Crew Recordings, but have been relatively quiet since. In fact, this three-tracker is the Irish twosome's first release for almost 18 months. They begin with the bustling late night deep house-funk of "Trants", where bleeping synthesizer melodies, woozy vocal samples and sweeping strings cluster around a tactile, synth-heavy groove. Arguably even better is the more up-tempo "Hurt You", a subtly energetic deep house roller full of spacey, cyclical synth riffs, bombastic bottom end, snappy drum machine hits and looped hip-hop vocal samples. Finally, they pay tribute to classic New Jersey deep house jams of old via the snaking synth-sax, bouncy beats and beautiful pianos of EP standout "Clarence (Smooth Mix)". | |
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