Review: Following on from a series of diverse, at times pop-leaning releases, DJ Godfather goes back to his Detroit roots on Killshot. The title track is a frenetic piece of high-tech jazz, with dramatic chords and strings swooping in over a frenetic metallic rhythm. "Funk For The Trunk" is a killer electro track, with Godfather fusing splurging acid with a menacing bass and an angular rhythm. The sum of these parts is an uncompromising but funky workout. And Godfather remains in similar territory for "Subterranean Tech Beat". Based on a barrelling groove, its high frequency tones and relentless percussion prime it for peak-time use.
Review: DJ Godfather back in da house with Smoke In Da Air, the crowning track of a release that's backed up by three electro, acid and house inspired jams. "Smoke In Da Air" stands out from the get-go for its undeniable footwork flavour, detuned vocals, smokey chords and wavering bassline - a hit! For your classic slice of ghetto house head straight to "Big Girl", with "Like Some Dubstep" going from minimal groove to Ultra Music festival banger. And for a pure deep house vibe with a touch of everything Detroit - "Rebirth Of A City" is your jam.
Review: Following the release of the epic 44-track Electro Beats For Freaks album of 2020, DJ Godfather returns with a EP you can't refuse. Show Some Respect sees the Detroit bass mechanic turn in three-and-a-half new numbers in the relaxed yet deep "Sunday Morning Spliff" alongside the New York noise and post punk sounds of "These Strippers" - get your narrative content from the Dan Diamond version. The title track - centralised around a badass claptrack - angles itself toward the new techno sound of Detroit, aka Electro.
Review: Here's a meeting of great electro producers, as DJ Godfather hosts a collaboration with K-1 aka Keith Tucker on his Databass label. "Version 1" of the title track is a seamless collaboration be-tween these two creative minds, with Godfather's hip-hop scratching and bass-heavy rhythm combined with Tucker's robotic vocals and atmospheric but chilling synths. While the dub take follows a similar trajectory, albeit without the vocals, 'Version 2' sees the pair take a trip to electro's outer limits with the original vocals sent into a robotic vortex, supported by a robust, steely rhythm. It's an inspired release from the sound's most distinctive artists.
Review: DJ Godfather back in the haus with the irrefutable Jit Or Die EP with the ghetto tech sounds of Jit outta Detroit. An absolute legend, a Godfather, of Detroit's ghetto house, electro and 808 sound, it's been the last two years that we've seen a dynamic resurgence from the artist, firing in a hot streak of digital only action to the shelves over the past two years. Following Sheefy Mcfly's Jittin Aint Dead EP for Databass, DJ Godfather keeps the Detroit-born movement kicking with two tracks of frenetic rhythms and mad drums that skirt between hi-nrg ghetto house ("Jit Like Me") to the cut up vocals and footwork in "Jit Or Die". Bonus points for the rude boy Parkhouse acapella.
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