Review: Over the last few years, Berlin-based Westcoast Goddess has released some of the most colourful, joyous and life-affirming dancefloor music around. Here the publicity-shy, Berlin-based artist makes her first appearance on Let's Play House with an EP packed to the rafters with memorably bright and breezy, synth-heavy gems. For proof, check the tactile deep house sunniness of opener "The Inner Snoopy", where dreamy chords, huggable riffs and tumbling lead lines dance around a chunky, turn-of-the-90s groove, or the giddy synth-pop/nu-disco/acid house fusion of "Limelight Garden". Elsewhere, Splitradix hook-up "Beach Noir" is a curious and quirky mixture of squelchy acid lines, grandiose sci-fi chords and rushing synth melodies, while "Murder At Passion Cove" is a veritable piano house stomper like none you've heard before.
Review: Instrumental deep house from the soulful/jazzy end of the spectrum is the overall MO on this four-tracker from Berlin's Westcoast Goddess. Opener 'Satisfaction & Clarity' centres around pulsing synth chords and dense strings, 'Soul Out Of Time' is a midtempo affair with tinkling keys shining out over multiple layers of percussion, 'Open Heart' is lighter and airier, marrying Jersey-style organ chords to some fine jazz-funk meanderings on guitar and keys, while finally 'In Search Of Darryl P' comes on like early 80s boogie's darker cousin. The production's a little on the busy side but these are four solid tracks all the same.
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