Andy Blake gets back to basics with a 2nd installment of his all-analogue, hardware-powered ‘Cave Paintings’ workouts. The vibe is meaningfully rough and ready, the A-side capturing a locked-in drum machine pattern and mental reversed synthline synced in tangled, captivating copulations, whereas the flipside gets loose with proper Chicago-meets-UK jack patterns.
“Elevate” serves up a slice of deep jacking house from the New York producer, Jon Cutler. On the remix duties we have up and coming dj/producer Victor Casimir who keeps it true NYC style, along with Marlon D and Doc Link from Chicago who rounds of the package with some raw drums and neo-soul.
Roska brings his first Bakongo production in over a year to Brainmath, a jacking cut on the edge of UK garage & funky house.
Franklin De Costa goes straight Deep House with a contemporary twist for Curle. Leading off ‘Fragile’ fixes hazy, almost half-heard piano keys with padded bass and heavily smoked late night ambiance, while ‘Circular Beings’ rubs up an electro-edged boompty Houser with deeply jazzed touches. On the flip ‘Ush Ush’ sit in a Nu-Euro-Deep groove and ‘Soulbound’ sets its sights on the deeper side of modern Chicago.
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