Lapien

From the start of this debut release from Amsterdam-based Lapien, one conceives that the young producer is conscientious. ‘Anvers’, the French name for Belgian port Antwerp, starts in unassuming manner, synths swimming, bass pondering, a gentle cymbal tapping. It’s the sound of thoughtful admiration, as if Lapien is standing in front of the city’s towering gothic cathedral, motionless in the midst of a now modern metropolis. But then, as loops spring uncomfortably back and an insistent beat thunders into the fray, one realizes that this is no time for admiring architecture; this is a night drive through the city – coarse orange streetlamps, chrome blue reflections, droplet-stained window panes. It is, also, at an unusually and unsettlingly fast pace, dragging its deeper house timbres and textures upwards.

• 1 anvers
• 2 anvers (conforce remix)
• 3 anvers (fred p reshape)