Shallow Taxi Club-Nights Turn Brighter Ep

This is one of those how did I miss this posts. This New Zealand release has been out for a month or so but I rather assumed it was some more lush disco deep house from Green Grass Recordings. Not so. Here’s some lovely techno disco tunes for your delectation.

Flashback is a storming tune. It’s a flashback in the sense that D normally uses, the pounding beats that open the track take you back to the early 90s. And as you get into that, after 2 mins there’s a gear change into some lovely piano house. Total anthem.

As if that wasn’t enough, here’s Mark My Words (Monkey Boots Remix). After Flashback is seems a lot less intense. But don’t be fooled. This gradually builds and builds until it breaks out the disco synth funk swagger.

Blurb: A bit of an enigma, Shallow Taxi Club has absorbed inspiration from years of vintage house music and disco history and locked himself in the studio, never to be seen again. The only evidence of his existence are random sound files send forth to the Grass Green offices, some recent examples contained on this release. With a little help from DJ duo Monkey Boots (who the great Greg Wilson recently referred to as one of his favorite acts of last year) the Nights Turn Brighter EP has been assembled, featuring four meaty cuts ready to (strobe)light up global dance floors. “Flashback” – Sometimes one needs to sack the subtle and mainline a shot of pure four-to-the-floor adrenaline. Sometimes one needs an anthem. Well, hello “Flashback.” Not so much embracing the ‘90s garage resurgence as bending it over a table and knocking it up, Shallow Taxi Club goes for the jugular. It’s got dynamic drums and a tripped-out arpeggio before a monster ’Haven’t-I-Heard-This-Before’ piano line and rousing vocals signal dance floor delirium. Monster. “Mark My Words (Monkey Boots Mix)” – Hey, hey they’re the Monkeys, but there’s no monkeying about. The Boots boys hit the spot straight up on their first remix commission with an edgy, epic take on the original. Built on a rock-solid groove, this is the sound of very late night deep disco tomfoolery. Gone is the original vocal and the guitar solo, replaced – at first – with fluttering synth chords and an automated, arpeggiated analogue line. Then a breakdown, a breath or two, and . filtered mayhem. The guitar loop is augmented by the return of the arpeggios and nagging, stabbing chords. A new vocal lifts things even further before a twinkling organ motif, trippy effects, and spacey chords send everyone home happy.

~ by acidted on June 9, 2013.