Review: Berlin-based DJ/producer Hyenah is a Watergate club resident and founder of its monthly RISE events. With his latest Watergate 27 mix, he has carefully selected and curated a vibrant house mix that touches all corners of the genre and refreshingly showcases artists outside the normal European hotspots.This is the second various artists EP taken from the mix with the individual track selections. Featuring Monaberry bosses Super Flu on the slinky and hypnotic tech house of "Effretikon", South African house hero Floyd Lavine delivering some super spiritual life music on his rework of Kerri Chandler's "Think Of Something", Frenchman Manoo (a former guest at RISE) with the evocative mood music of "De's Lullaby" and Casablanca's FNX Omar with the sublime deepness of "Minuit".
Pablo Fierro & Mr Raoul K - "Ancestral" (feat B'Utiza) - (7:15) 118 BPM
Mr Raoul K & Manoo - "Bara" (feat Ahmed Sosso - Pablo Fierro remix) - (7:28) 121 BPM
Mr Raoul K & Manoo - "Bara" (feat Ahmed Sosso - dub) - (7:29) 121 BPM
Review: Hamburg-based Ivorian Mr Raoul K has long been one of the best producers of Afro-infused house around, a fact confirmed by last year's terrific "African Paradigm" album. Here he delivers the the third volume in the accompanying EP series,which features a trio of previously unheard collaborations and remixes. To kick things of he joins forces with Pablo Fierro and vocalist B'Utiza on "Ancestral", a deep, tech-tinged chunk of Osunlade style Afro-house that strikes a near perfect balance between percussive power and melodious dreaminess. Fierro returns to action on the track that follows, offering a dark, hypnotic tech-house take on Manoo collaboration, "Bara". That comes accompanied by an arguably even better Dub Mix, which includes some fantastic stereo panning and haunting snippets of Ahmed Sosso's intoxicating lead vocal.
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