Review: Amsterdam-based Malik Kassim has been recording as Retromigration for some time, though his breakthrough came last summer via a high-profile EP on Wolf Music. Here he appears on home city label Handy for the first time, bringing with him a quartet of quality cuts. The headline attraction is 'Versace Sheets', a wonderfully breezy and warming slab of jazzy deep house/broken beat fusion rich in hazy trumpet solos, sun-kissed musical flourishes and huggable grooves. Byron the Aquarius brilliantly reframes it as a languid, synth solo-laden deep house jam, before Kassim returns with the techno-tempo deep garage weight of 'Where's The Mula'. 'T.E.F' is an 'Apache'-break driven peak-time house roller, while 'Frontline High' delivers woozy, bass-heavy techno/deep house fusion with added Yorkshire bleeps and tactile chords.
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