Various Artists
Qline EP
Top quality experimental dance music touching down in Detroit from Soiree Records, paying tribute to motor city and showing its latest colours. This is achieved via a prismatic refraction through the four-pronged artistic tetrahedron of Drivetrain, DJ Cent, J. Garcia and Blaktony. Each artist offers a distinct perspective on the city's house music legacy, offering something of a blind-men-and-elephant paradox, each skirting but never quite totally capturing the essence of its true importance, except in collaborative unison. Our picks have to be Blaktony's 'Eastern Market (Shed 3)', an engorged undulation of deep soul jazz come bleep, and Drivetrain's opening 'Belle', a stuttering, radiophonic twizzler of a track signifying the itchier ends of the Detroit sound.
12inch | Soiree: SRT086 | upcoming |