Roundup, October #2
From Bollywood house bangers to gorgeously crafted remixes, we roundup our favourite tracks of the week. Listen below.
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Anish Kumar – Nazia
Possibly one of the coolest new acts in the UK house and funky scenes, Anish Kumar has gained a reputation for his flipping of classic, old-school Bollywood hits into sizzling house bangers with loads of extra spice on the side. Nazia Hasaan’s eternal Disco Deewane was practically made for this sort of sampling; one wonders why no one bothered to do it sooner. Thankfully Kumar’s the one to get it done. He reveres his source material enough to not butcher it but rather, evolve it for the modern dancefloor.
Hagop Tchaparian, Four Tet – Round (Four Tet Remix)
British-Armenian producer Hagop Tchaparian and Four Tet are pretty much made for each other. Both producers understand the dynamics of sound similarly, composing fluid and textured pieces of dance music that ooze beyond the boundaries of the club. For his take on Round, Four Tet doesn’t have to do all that much. He adds some polish to the otherwise grainy kicks and hi-hats, and pulls out Tchaparian’s sparkling, serpentine arpeggios right into the foreground.
Circuit des Yeux, Claire Roussay – Sculpting the Exodus (Claire Roussay)
Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr, like many of us, discovered experimental composer Claire Roussay during lockdown. Like many of us, she was taken by the immersive, transportive quality Roussay had perfected, wasting no time in enlisting the composer to remix music from Circuit des Yeux’s album io. Roussay’s reworking of Sculpting the Exodus is masterful; a simple three chord progression that becomes the emotional spine of the track swells and evolves like, in Fohr’s words, “lead pipes slowly melting into a metallic river.”
Christine and the Queens – rien dire
Our first taste of Chris’s latest, much teased new project is perhaps more familiar than anticipated. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing; rien dire plays right into their strengths to deliver a truly beautiful slice of synthpop. Set to a barebones clicktrack like pattern of modular synths and waves of drones, rien dire unfurls slowly like something coming into full bloom; Chris’s powerful voice harmonising with itself in the space between. It’s both nostalgic and future facing, a satisfying start to a new era.
