Trip To Afrika - (5:25) 120 BPM
Tikid? - (4:41)
120 BPM Tikid? (Ricardo Baez Whispered remix) - (5:50) 100 BPM
Review: For much of his career, Nick Anthony Simoncino has offered up colourful and melodious deep house informed by late '80s and early '90s deep house sounds from Chicago, New York, New Jersey and the United States. Persia, his latest expansive EP, is an altogether different beast, with Simoncino delivering dense, low-slung workouts full of heavy bass, whispered Arabic vocal snippets, rugged acid lines and tough, dark room-ready drums. While a bit of a sonic surprise, the resultant cuts are all on point, with our picks of an incredibly strong bunch including the driving, druggy, bleeping opener 'Persia' (one of his most intoxicating cuts to date), the sparse, percussive and dubbed-out 'Jinb?' and the strobe-lit acid house psychedelia of 'Tkid?'