Review: Fresh from a recent collaboration with Alex Metric on Anjunabeat, former Noir Music man Ten Ven returns to his When I Met You label, an imprint he established early last year. Like its predecessor, "Word of Mouth" is another collaborative affair, with Gramme band member Luke Hannam swinging by the studio to lend a hand. His urgent, eyes-closed vocals surge from the speakers on "Yeah", a driving, low-slung disco house number smothered in rubbery bass guitar, fizzing synth riffs and relentless percussion. Arguably even better is "Word of Mouth", a lolloping, mid-tempo affair that sees the duo wrap echoing electronic motifs around another scorching, bass guitar driven groove, while Ten Ven's accompanying re-edit turns the track into an acid disco slammer.
Review: Get To Know AKA Larry Holcome cut his teeth as the in-house mixing and mastering engineer at Cr2 Records, and made his production debut in the mid-00s with a string of breakbeat releases on labels like Botchit & Scarper and Spin Out Records. None of which would give you any reason to suppose that his latest release, which comes on his own Future Sound Of Then label, would be a dusty, lo-fi, mid-paced Balearic kinda jam that makes extensive use of a Janet Jackson vocal sample, but such is indeed the case. Solid ammunition for all those afternoon, poolside, warm-up and BBQ sets this summer.
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