Emerging artist Darren Clark presents us with three tracks occupying a space of their own between deep house, disco and Balearic. Three arrangements built on rock-solid foundations allowing deceptively complex arrangements. Three flavours characterised by judicious layering of sounds and subtle tweaks. Like an architect wearing an iPod, this one builds and grooves. With a hypnotic two-note […]
Sometimes you need to sack the subtle and mainline a shot of pure four-to-the-floor adrenaline. Sometimes you need an anthem. Well, hello Flashback. Not so much embracing the 90s garage resurgence as bending it over a table and knocking it up, Shallow Taxi Club goes for the jugular with dynamic drums and a tripped-out arpeggio before a monster
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Disco edit-not-edit mayhem! Hold Back The Night is built around a guitar loop manipulated in multiple ways to accentuate three distinct sections. The triple treat begins with a straight-up floorfilling groove and strong vocal before monster delays herald the arrival of a Moog-style bassline that drives the track into peaktime territory. Bouncy bongos maintain the
