Review: Polish deep house imprint Exotic Refreshment continues on with their 10 year celebrations. After a great first volume featuring Haft, Malbetrieb and Palliate, we have the latter, again - presenting the indeed 'exotic' "The Wu" which features some hypnotic polyrhythms beneath woozy synths and other eerie elements. Married Israeli couple Dangur & Mintz team up on the moody dancefloor drama of "Refreshment" which is a tunneling progressive house styled groove that will appeal to fans of Bedrock as much as it would Life & Death. Speaking of the latter, there's some brooding dancefloor drama of that very style on offer with fellow countryman Itay Dailes' "Stand Up" sure to cause some suspense filled and strobe-lit moments on the dancefloor. Elsewhere, Hans Berg pitches a right curveball at us with the furious rave mutation of "Sparks", which is powered by some monstrous breaks and ravey sounds on this reinterpretation of mid '90s dance music.
Eluize - "Symmetry" (Constantijn Lange remix) - (8:00) 122 BPM
Review: To celebrate a decade in the game, Exotic Refreshment is releasing a sequence of EPs containing never before heard tracks from the vaults. Palliate steps up first with the quietly creepy and intoxicating "Aishe", where Arabic strings, psychedelic guitars and hazy Middle Eastern vocals wrap themselves around a hypnotic, tech-house groove. Haft makes great use of melancholic clarinet lines on the rolling and atmospheric "Otable", while Malbetrieb and Mintz successfully join forces for the low-slung late night delight that is "Osmosis", where fluttering synthesizer lines and far-sighted electronics rise above a chunky and occasionally sweaty groove. To draw a fine EP to a close, Constantijn Lange serves up a wonderfully evocative, piano-laden deep house rework of Eluize's "Symmetry".
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