SAES drops ‘Still Standing’ for his debut release and GCR’s third. The EP takes us on a journey into downbeat house and burns us through two originals that create an ethereal space within. They exude a personal essence blending genre lines to develop a sound that is all his own.
The odyssey begins with Still Standing, a piece with enough emotion to get you lost in your own plane of thought while you sit into the snares and swim in the bass. It continues with Mr. Lonely, a piece best summed up by its bittersweet vocal presence and floating hats. GCR fam Audioprophecy & Anton M. give Still Standing a house treatment with a purposeful deep vibe. Ataxia takes Still Standing left-of-center on a spacial journey of its own, revealed in its dubbed bassline and ominous synth lines.
The bonus track included is from Rheostat, delivering a first-ever remix of Mr. Lonely that kicks the original into high gear with an enslaving hook and a kinetic bassline.
SAES is the musical equivalent of a run on sentence. Multiple ideas branching out in various directions, however, somehow capturing the essence in his mind. With a background in hip-hop and a musical taste ranging the gamut from motown soul to berlin techno, he is slowly piecing together the soundscape created in his head. If it can be sampled, chopped, looped, synthesized, crushed, reversed, pitched, destroyed, deconstructed, or recreated, then it will find its way into SAES’ music.
