Tim Engelhardt – It Matters To Me

Some new deep house / techno from boy wonder Tim Engelhardt, coming out next month. Meanwhile, a free download.

Tim is stupidly young, like 15. We had an interview with him here last autumn. His work has a lush smoothness and a preternatural maturity. This new EP is more of the same. The title track – It Matters To Me – has all the essential elements of a Tim Engelhardt tune, lush violins tugging at your heart strings and beats that flirt around the deep house / techno borders. But with enough bass to give the track real substance. The Kiss is more of an open landscape, trying to give you a gentle rush on the ascending synth/string lines. Slightly trying too hard. About A Moment is a more substantial track, with its deep, deep bass rumble. This would sound great on the dance floor. An EP highlight. Teardrop‘s slightly functional. The extra digital track is Too Far From You. A bit more experimental with the clicks and glitches in the vocal. The beats are also more exotic and discordant than the rest of the EP. An interesting change of direction.

And the free download – Like You Do – is a slow tech house track from Tim:

Blurb: Tim Engelhardt is back on PMP with a 4-track EP, following last years’ ‘All Eyes On You’, which was quite successful. He relies on his signature elements on this release: Emotive melodies, rich basslines, vibrant and fluffy percussion and elaborate atmospheres. The title track ‘It Matters To Me’ starts with sounding pretty empty before the bassline kicks in and a bouncy string-loop arises, but continuously evolves to a summery breeze of jazzy rhodes licks, expressive strings, a tiny but effective filtered saw sequence and tender piano chords, which will aid the record to stay in your hearts forever. Next up is ‘The Kiss’, which is a beautiful mellow track, where you can really feel Tim’s passion for floating and emotive soundscapes. The b-side starts with the powerful ‘About A Moment’, a bass-heavy record which portrays just a situation, a moment the listener should witness too, that’s what this track is about.. fall into frenzy and feel for yourself. Rounding up the release, he recorded the track ‘Teardrop’, whose swirling synth lines and heavy baselines are simply capturing and hypnotizing you, before you wake up in the break, which sounds a bit wistful and full of desire, just to get kicked back into the actual main theme of the record. A track to get lost in. As a digital bonus, he made the track ‘Too Far From You’, that is a far slower gem than the other ones. It starts with unusual glitches and percussion, which, at least in the first seconds, don’t make any sense in relation the groove, but they adapt quite nice during the song, which has also got heavily edited vocals, sung by Philipp Ludwig.

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~ by acidted on April 10, 2013.