Review: Following a surprise two-year hiatus, Strenth Music Recordings founder Ramon Lisandra Quezada - known to you and me as DJ Qu - returns to action. While his productions are rarely less than solid, there's something particularly impressive by the variety of tracks served up here. Contrast, for example, the fiendishly druggy and wonky early morning techno throb of "In Trance", with the skewed, sample-heavy, tooled-up late night deep house of funk-fuelled opener "No Poetry". Note the differences, too, between the bouncy, percussion-rich drum workout "Brut" and closer "Seepostrum", a brilliant fusion of broken, military-sounding drum work and loopy, head-in-the-clouds motifs. While there may be plenty of subtle eclecticism on show, all four tracks are aimed squarely at peak-time club plays.
Lotus (feat Charlotte Carter-Allen) - (3:32) 119 BPM
Feed Off Of - (5:06) 119 BPM
Candlelit - (2:29) 89 BPM
Whistle Song - (5:46) 122 BPM
Supafly - (4:05) 96 BPM
Visitation - (5:31) 125 BPM
Get It Til It's Gone - (5:25) 124 BPM
Toc - (5:02) 126 BPM
Conjure - (5:40) 125 BPM
Review: Five years on from the release of his debut album, Gymnastics, Ramon Lisandro Quezada finally serves up a follow-up. Conjure is a fine set that neatly showcases the varied sides of the prolific deep house producer's output. So, we get Iberican tribal drums fused with hazy trumpet solos ("Feed Off Of"), dreamy ambience ("Candlelit"), groovy downtempo beats (the hip-hop influenced "Supafly"), sumptuous and sensual dancefloor deepness ("Lotus (In Memory Of)"), and dark, intense, occasionally dubbed-out late night business ("Whistle Song", "Visitation", the stripped-back hip-house of "Toc"). There's little in the way of filler or fluff, and plenty of playable, club-ready material.
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