Review: Bucharest-based Victhor previously won plaudits for his collaborative EP on All Day I Dream. This TRYBESof label debut also includes some collaborative cuts, namely vocal and dub versions of 'Luna', an attractive fusion of rising and falling electronic melodies, attractive synthesizer sounds, steel pan style motifs and rolling, thickset tech-house grooves. Both are impressive and in-keeping with Victhor's trademark sound, but it's opener 'Al Oud' that really set our pulse racing. Piled high with exotic vocalisations, faintly foreboding chords, rubbery tech-house grooves and Middle Eastern/North African instrumentation, it's the most impressive Arabic house excursion we've heard for some time.
Review: We first became aware of VICTHOR via his contribution to All Day I Dream's summer 2019 sampler compilation. It seems fitting then that the little known (but fast rising) artist has returned to the imprint to release his first full EP, a collaboration-heavy affair that outs mood and melody right at the forefront. He first joins forces with Romanian tech-house type Bross on the smooth, semi-symphonic peak-time melodiousness of 'La Caminata', before getting Alex Twin on board for 'Amarr', a similarly attractive affair that adds Middle Eastern and North African instrumentation to a gorgeous deep house groove. There's a similarly exotic, mind altering feel at the heart of Christian Lepah collab 'Sundar (Newman Retouch)', while fully solo outing 'Walk Away' is deliciously dreamy, loved-up and musically detailed.
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