Review: Roy Rosenfeld's remix of "Rainchecks In Montreal" for Guy Gerber and his Rumors label is a captivating fusion of harmonies, melodies, and grooves that seamlessly delivers a pure and emotive feeling for the dancefloor. The result is a beautifully laid out melodic techno remix that captures the heart of the original while refining it to perfection - which doesn't mean sleeping on the instrumental love-ballad of the original either. Hup Hup.
Review: Well over a year has passed since Guy Gerber's last EP of original productions, so this outing on his long-running Rumors label is well overdue. The Ibiza-based Israeli is at his atmospheric, off-kilter best on title track 'Leave It On', where exotic instrumentation, marimba style melodies, filmic samples and hand percussion sounds rise above a typically hypnotic, locked-in groove. Gerber references his own progressive house past on the sparkling 'Leave Me' - all shuffling, tactile house beats, swirling noises and fluid piano motifs - before jetting us towards the outer reaches of the galaxy on 'Jupiter Blues', a tremendously intergalactic-sounding slab of immersive sci-fi house laden with effects-laden female vocalisations.
Review: First featured on the Pyramid of the Moon EP, Guy Gerber's 'Bocat' is a stylish, guitar-sporting fusion of moody house and alternative indie-dance featuring fine lead vocals from guest singer Albertina. It's a track ripe for remixing, hence these reworks from Michael Bibi and OMRI. Bibi steps up first, building a tough groove out of thumping kick-drums, crackling handclaps and a deliciously keep and weighty bassline onto which he adds thrusting, low-register TB-303 stabs and Albertina's lead vocal. OMRI takes a different approach, highlighting Gerber's suspenseful piano motifs and glassy-eyed guitar licks before combining them with a tactile tech-house groove and creepy electronic motifs. Both reworks hit the spot, though it's Bibi's energetic and sleazy effort that's probably more suitable for peak-time club plays.
Review: Israeli tech house hero Guy Gerber returns on his esteemed Rumors imprint with remixes of his latest hit "What To Do" that caused a hot fuss earlier this year. The Los Angeles based live performer here receives remixes from Berliner &ME giving the track the deep and seductive Keinemusik style of treatment, while the Chicago underground hero DJ Jes also steps in to deliver a tough and swing fuelled deep house rendition.
Review: Israeli veteran Guy Gerber has been surprisingly quiet of late, with this EP marking his first new material for over 12 months. While a little closer in tone to regular deep house than many of the Tel Aviv producer's releases, the EP comes laden with the kind of ear-pleasing melodies and dreamy audio textures we've come to expect. Opener "What To Do" sets the tone, wrapping drowsy, filtered vocal samples, spacey chords and twinkling piano motifs around an oceans-deep groove, before Gerber gets more percussive on the creepy, Raw Silk-sampling shuffle of "Night of the Gold Diggers". The fluid "Hummingbird Blues", on the other hand, is a gently jazzy deep house number rich in rubbery acoustic bass and cascading orchestration.
Review: Middle Eastern tech house represents good and proper here with Tel Aviv's finest Guy Gerber presenting on his Rumors imprint a new collaboration between himself and Turkey's Deniz Kurtel. She has kept a fairly low profile since her days on Wolf & Lamb and Crosstown Rebels, but it's nice to see her on the scene again. "Here Comes The Rain" is a dreamy and melodic number with shows off the signature production skills of both producers and is the kind of track you can imagine Lee Burridge playing on a rooftop in L.A. this Spring. Second offering "An Army Of Stalkers" is an almost 11 minute long epic featuring some sharp and snappy breaks accompanying shimmering arpeggios and ethereal pads; it's all quite beautiful really.
Review: Sean "Puffy" Coombs decision to join forces with veteran big room house producer Guy Gerber still seems odd, despite the success of the duo's Ibiza-friendly (and free-to-download) 11 11 album. Here, one of that album's highlights, Tourist Trap, gets the big name remix treatment. Jamie Jones kicks things off with a typically woozy, bleep-heavy tech-house rework, before Gerber joins forces with David K for a dark, stripped-back take that seems to shuffle between the speakers like an old man on crack. There's more than a touch of Balearic dreaminess about Visionquest's excellent interpretation, while Soul Clap steal the show with a dreamy, woozy, electrofunk-influenced remix that's blessed with a brilliant, slowed-down breakdown.
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