Review: Three years on from his last EPs of note - a tidy 12" on INFUSE and an overlooked EP on his own Salty Nuts label - Fabian "Fabe" Winkels finally returns to action via an expansive Shall Not Fade label debut. It's an excitable and pleasingly varied set all told, with Winkels sprinting between sweat-soaked techno-funk ('DHL Expressure'), UK garage-meets-Mood II Swing heaviness ('Back To OPZ'), post-bassline UKG/techno fusion ('It's a Lo', 'Lost Art Orly'), organ-sporting chunky house weightiness ('Material Views'), loose-limbed London style tech-house grooves (the bass-heavy 'Ain't You'), and bleeping deep garage goodness ('Liquid Stick').
Review: German beat maker Fabe has emerged over recent years as one of tech house's most skilled groove smiths. His drums and bass are always seductive no matter their style. Here he links up with Burnski aka Instinct's Constant Sound label for four more irresistible nuggets. 'The Greater Good' is super quick as it glides over rippling bass with silky chords, then 'Newbie Bounce' has a more weighty groove. There is elastic funk and US swing in the shuffling goodness of 'Flow Groover' then 'On Edge' closes out with bulky deep house beats and late-night synth work of the highest order.
Review: Fast-rising German deep house don Fabe has yet to put a foot wrong during his Out of a Change EP series, which here reaches its third (and possibly final) instalment. He hits the ground running with cheery, action-packed UK garage/deep house fusion opener 'Who You', where Todd Edwards style vocal cut-ups and swinging beats combine with smooth bass and colourful lead lines, before delivering some stripped-back, early '90s deep house flavours on the crunchy 'Good Days Predominate'. 'Take Another Sound' is a chunky, bass-heavy, piano-sporting early morning bumper, while 'Doors Open' and 'Back To The Cloud' see him deliver deep, downtempo two-step excursions that are both bold and immensely beautiful.
Review: There was plenty to admire about Fabe's first Out of a Change EP on Salty Nuts, which slipped out late last month. This speedy follow-up - the second part of what we believe to be a trilogy - is just as impressive as its predecessor, with the German producer first serving up some high-grade, retro-futurist chunkiness - the 1990s MK organ motifs, toasty bass and sweaty drums of 'Light Pink Bubble' - before diving into deeper waters via the funk-fuelled shuffle of the spacey and jazzy 'Get Out of Paint'. 'From Top To Bottom' boasts a fine fusion of manipulated rave riffs, sparkling synths and bumpin' drums, while 'Out of a Change' is colourful, dreamy, evocative and propelled forwards by chunky, tech-tinged deep house beats.
Review: Sometime Eastenderz and Fuse London contributor Fabe is set to release a pair of EPs on Salty Nuts, with this quietly impressive outing counting as the first. Throughout, the German producer skillfully balances rolling, tech-tinged peak-time grooves with the kind of warming and melodic synth sounds more often associated with deep house and mid-90s US garage. Choose between the warming deep house haziness of 'Right Now and Always'; the glassy-eyed late-night hypnotism of '161', the more bustling deep-tech trip that is 'No End In Sight' and the ear-pleasing speed garage-goes-tech-house loveliness of 'All You'. Stellar stuff all told.
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