House Is A Feeling

Anyone do anything worthwhile? I went to Innervisions at Fabric but I don’t remember much apart from “Orbitallife” circa 4.30am. It seemed a very good vibe in there but I’d “a lot of drink taken” so I left around 5.30am. Was anyone sentient enough to give a good account of the night? My evening ended with incoherent blabbering and words that could not be sent from brain to mouth.

I also found this record at the weekend (”found” it perched towards the top of the Beatport charts, no back pain/sweat involved) which I hastily decided may finally be the successor to the Salt City Orchestra remix of Marshall Jefferson’s “Mushrooms”. I’m talking about Jimpster’s “Slipped Disc” remix of “Momma’s Groove” by Osunlade on Strictly Rhythm. I might climb down from my “Mushrooms” comparison but this is a seriously great house record. Just the right amount of bump and that summer evening feel to it.

I really like the really dub influenced drums in this too, too often dub-house means the swing is lost completely but this record is about as neat a shuffle as you could have.

There are quite a lot of really strong releases in the last 2-3 weeks. I mean, I guess like many of you I find records I like week in week out, to the point where judging the general standard of them becomes quite hard. When you really get into house and techno I guess there could be a nuclear holocaust leaving 2 or 3 surviving producers and some of us would still be like “the scene is great, some great stuff out there!”, but I know how easy it was to do a WhatPeoplePlay roundup last week in the same week as I did a chart on this blog. That says something about what’s coming out.

So here’s a record that’s quite different. It’s Balearic but seems so grey and rainy, Pier Bucci’s remix of Ziggy Kinder, on Tiefschwarz’s Souvenir label. It’s all about those huge teardrop synth splashes, a strange deluge of emotion in a scene that’s very visceral at the moment. Perhaps by “emotion” I mean “trance”. Either way.