With a sound that calls back to 90s latin house and freestyle energies, Navid Izadi’s ‘Messin’ is a nostalgic club track that tells the story of a girl who wants to have her cake and eat it, too, and a man who ain’t having any more of it.
Lush synth pads wrap around a nasty bassline to take things immediately into party town. The deal is sealed with big vocals from Izadi himself and Body Language’s Angelica Bess, topped off with some live percussion and housey piano keys. The ‘Shade’s Up Dub’ digs even deeper for a drugged out sunrise scorcher that wouldn’t be out of place on the record store shelves of yesteryear.
‘Hard 2 Say’ takes a different route, mixing analog synth drums and yearning vocoder verses with Elfman-esque choir chords and G-funk synth leads to create a mysterious sound that’s equal parts romantic and tough. ‘Messin’ get’s a remix from the dynamite disco troupe, Midnight Magic, that sounds a bit like Larry Heard if he were speeding down the Pacific Coast Highway in a white convertible. ‘Hard 2 Say’ gets a remix from Funkadelic friends, FSQ, lacing it up with live drums, bass and guitar to take the track into deep intergalactic funk territory.
Not many people can say they rap, DJ, produce & sing, but Navid Izadi is no ordinary artist. A member of the Crew Love gang, he has previously collaborated with Deniz Kurtel, Pillow Talk & Soul Clap. He regularly tours the world and his track ‘Feelin’ Purple’ (Soul Clap Remix) was named as Pete Tong’s Essential New Tune.
