Review: Damon Jee - Summer No Summer EP
Review: Summer No Summer EP -Damon Jee
Sprechen Music or Speak Music for our non-bilingual readers is the new creation of Paper Recordings A&R supremo, film reviewer and cataloguer of crimes against footwear Chris Massey. With no particular boundaries Chris wants to create a platform to “showcase electronic music designed for the dance floor...with a passion for melody, groove, soul & energy and no limitations of style across a diverse release policy”
The first EP comes courtesy of Damon Jee (Days of Being WIid/Nein Records) and is a late night excursion that has its sights firmly set on dance floor.
Summer No Summer opens the EP with a beast of a builder that has a low slung bass line coupled with a cracking snare. The warped pads shift in and out of phase and mesmerise your ears before the keys enter the fray the melody has an air of Running Man about them (you’ll see what I mean when you hear it) an excellent opener.
Cuir Rouge follows and has a mesmerising effect on you. Solid as a rock with haunting stabs and terrific sweeps it’s a joyous six and a half minutes that goes by far too quickly in my opinion. Drop this in a dark and dirty basement and the crowd will lose their shit that’s for sure.
The Summer No Summer remix comes from no other than Hardway Bros with Tici Taci boss man Duncan Gray strumming his twanger to his usual high standards. Don’t be surprised to hear this bad boy drop at many an ALFOS party over the coming months this is pure quality. The heavy drum hits sit gloriously with Mr Gray’s take on the original melody. Tripped out Psych, Balearic, Electro fused niceness that’s wonderfully diverse but so hits the spot.
Lastly but by no means least Il Est Vilaine sprinkle their magic dust over Cuir Rouge and completely flip the script. They bring their own dubby vocals to the party with echoing synths and a killer bass line that drops the track into a whole other dimension.
Sprechen have set their standards very high indeed and as Chris has said himself Sprechen will concentrate on quality over quantity and will look to do a handful of releases per year.
Summer no Summer is a quality Ep, diverse enough that all four tracks would easily find their way into a set throughput the night which should appeal to the more discerning selector of music. I personally can’t wait to hear what Sprechen have up their sleeve next.
Buy it from the 28th September via Juno or add it to your wish list now!
http://www.junodownload.com/products/damon-jee-summer-no-summer/2883152-02/
Michael Prestage
09/10
www.facebook.com/sprechenmusic
www.soundcloud.com/sprechenmusic
www.twitter.com/sprechenmusic
Sprechen Music or Speak Music for our non-bilingual readers is the new creation of Paper Recordings A&R supremo, film reviewer and cataloguer of crimes against footwear Chris Massey. With no particular boundaries Chris wants to create a platform to “showcase electronic music designed for the dance floor...with a passion for melody, groove, soul & energy and no limitations of style across a diverse release policy”
The first EP comes courtesy of Damon Jee (Days of Being WIid/Nein Records) and is a late night excursion that has its sights firmly set on dance floor.
Summer No Summer opens the EP with a beast of a builder that has a low slung bass line coupled with a cracking snare. The warped pads shift in and out of phase and mesmerise your ears before the keys enter the fray the melody has an air of Running Man about them (you’ll see what I mean when you hear it) an excellent opener.
Cuir Rouge follows and has a mesmerising effect on you. Solid as a rock with haunting stabs and terrific sweeps it’s a joyous six and a half minutes that goes by far too quickly in my opinion. Drop this in a dark and dirty basement and the crowd will lose their shit that’s for sure.
The Summer No Summer remix comes from no other than Hardway Bros with Tici Taci boss man Duncan Gray strumming his twanger to his usual high standards. Don’t be surprised to hear this bad boy drop at many an ALFOS party over the coming months this is pure quality. The heavy drum hits sit gloriously with Mr Gray’s take on the original melody. Tripped out Psych, Balearic, Electro fused niceness that’s wonderfully diverse but so hits the spot.
Lastly but by no means least Il Est Vilaine sprinkle their magic dust over Cuir Rouge and completely flip the script. They bring their own dubby vocals to the party with echoing synths and a killer bass line that drops the track into a whole other dimension.
Sprechen have set their standards very high indeed and as Chris has said himself Sprechen will concentrate on quality over quantity and will look to do a handful of releases per year.
Summer no Summer is a quality Ep, diverse enough that all four tracks would easily find their way into a set throughput the night which should appeal to the more discerning selector of music. I personally can’t wait to hear what Sprechen have up their sleeve next.
Buy it from the 28th September via Juno or add it to your wish list now!
http://www.junodownload.com/products/damon-jee-summer-no-summer/2883152-02/
Michael Prestage
09/10
www.facebook.com/sprechenmusic
www.soundcloud.com/sprechenmusic
www.twitter.com/sprechenmusic
