Review: Stiltz's third release on Axel Boman's label is witness to another reinvention of deep house. The tite track starts off with a pulsing bass and some irresistibly seductive keys - borrowed straight from Larry Heard's rulebook - but puzzingly, midway through a siren comes blaring in to disrupt the peace. "Crypt" is less predictable and sees Stiltz avoid typical house tropes. The track's syths are crystalline and austere, like wind blowing across snow covered fields, and the backing consists of splintered rhythms and beats that go in and out of time. Like all releases on this label, it makes a welcome change from the glut of cookie cutter deep house tracks.
Review: To celebrate 250 parties, Eamon Harkin and Justin Carter, the residents at and organisers of Mister Saturday Night, have put together this wonderful compilation. It starts with the offbeat folk of Menelik Wossenatchu's "Tezeta" and the glorious, soulful disco of Soul Bros Inc's "Pyramid". The compilation veers back towards electronic sounds on the stripped back deep house of ESB's "On Cue" and the bleepy "Aches" from Baba Stiltz. FaltyDL's "Hardcourage" bridges the gap between the abstract and dance-floor structures, Marcellus Pittman drops the acid-soaked Detroit house of "There's Somebody Out There" and Kerrier District delivers the lush electronic disco of "Let's Dance and Freak".Then & Now is a wide-eyed, freewheeling compilation that captures the long-running New York party's essence.
Review: It's taken Baba Stiltz a while to settle on a sound of his own. While his early material - released as far back as 2011 - stuck rigidly to skwee and hip-hop influenced downtempo grooves, latter projects for Studio Barnhus have seen him head in a much more immersive deep house direction. This imaginative and eccentric debut album stitches together these disparate strands. The results are impressive, with vibrant, Balearic-influenced deep house cuts nestling side by side with robust acid jams, scratchy downtempo grooves, grandiose synthesizer soundscapes and skewed instrumental pop. It's an assured and curiously off-kilter debut, which should appeal to those who enjoy more leftfield strains of deep house.
Review: Having already featured on Samo & Sling's Born Free label as well as the fledgling Under Bron, young Stockholm-based producer and selector Baba Stiltz adds a more established and venerable Swedish operation to his prospering discography with the first of several releases for Studio Barnhus. Overseen by Axel Boman, Kornel Kovacs and Petter Nordkvist, the Studio Barnhus label has a long established sense for not taking themselves seriously and this obviously appeals to Baba Stiltz whose debut release for the label presents three variations on "Our Girls". All three were apparently recorded straight to tape and the tempo gets gradually slower with each track; naturally the bouncy, effervescent nature of the first rendition will appeal most to fans of straight house music, but the music gets more woozy and psychedelically intoxicating the slower it becomes. More please!
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