tevo howard – the age of compassion
track
listing : house
mix, donnacha costello rough rub, aera recompassion mix, original mix
having been somewhat disconnected to the world of machine music for a
while, i’m chuffed to bits to report that the latest buzzin’ fly
12” is rather lovely, and underlines all that i love about electronic
music.
according to the press release, tevo
howard came to the labels attention due to the fact that tracey thorn had
previously dropped some vocals onto a remix of an
instrumental of tevos, without
me. this ended up with fly boss man, ben watts, asking
tevo to sort out some music for buzzin’
fly, with this 4 tracker being the end result; a mellow
piece of pulsating house music that doesn’t thump and grind the
listener into submission, but instigates memories of slo-mo moody shots
of miami vice sunset power boat scenes.
the original 4 minute 40 seconds version is a sublime, minimal
combination of melodic bleeps and yamaha dx7 styled chords, whereas,
the remixes firm up the beats, push the melody in different directions,
and add sharper extra layers to the sonic palette, or in the case of
the donnacha costello rough dub
(my own particular favourite), the track is morphed into a 7 minute
up-and-at-em dance floor filling analogue acid house thump.
cracking stuff.
more detail : here