The beat’s the thing: with Ziino, and Distant Soul #House #Techno
It’s pre-Friday. If you need a final lift to get you to the weekend here are Ziino, and Distant Soul to march you there on waves of beats.
Ireland’s Ziino returns with Djouce. We have the extended mix version which is a generous seven minutes. This is a big fat track stomping its way around the techno and minimal house borders. Ziino says that, “The main bongo sound/melody in this track was recorded on top of the mountain “Djouce” just outside of Dublin in the Wicklow mountains.” Quite what anyone is doing taking a bongo up a mountain is anyone’s guess. But we should be grateful as it provides a slightly leftfield sense to the beats which are deep and heavy. This makes the track belie his description of it as a deep progressive house track. That said, he does allow the track a greater sense of synth space in the second half. Power with pleasure.
Distant Soul is from Switzerland and offers the punishing techno pleasures of Back To The Future. She’s based in Luzern but has Palestinian roots. I’m not sure any techno track can really offer us a vision of the future this long after it came to prominence. But that doesn’t mean this isn’t a really good debut track. The beats pack a really bassy old school punch in the guts from the start. There’s a bit of an acid house tranciness going on as well. It takes the time to offer a proper build before the peak that speaks of confidence in how to handle a dance floor. Techno may no longer be the future but that doesn’t mean Distant Soul isn’t going to be a future star.
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