Felaz

Felaz

Glimpse and Alex Jones [Hypercolour...

25 February, 2008 | 10.32PM

• Section: Music Recommendations
• Written by: Lee Smith

London producer Glimpse returns again to Hypercolour, following up his acclaimed ‘Talking To Girls’ EP with this stunning new track made in collaboration with Hypercolour head honcho Alex Jones.

‘Felaz’ sees the pair boiling down a digi-disco groove to its bare bones for a masterfully constructed, low-slung techno epic.

Grand chimes ripple over an ethereal vocodered refrain, while a chugging, burbling bassline pulses endlessly below.

Discarding the soulless glitches of contemporary minimalism in favour of elegant sound design and straight, richly textured synths, it’s a deeply powerful slice of high-end dancefloor gold.

On the flip, Offenbach’s super-hot prodigy Matt Star (whose releases on Weave have been caned by the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Luciano, Magda, Dominik Eulberg, and Loco Dice) gets stuck into ‘Felaz’ with a stripped-down, gentler alternative to the original’s swelling pyrotechnics.

A bumping rhythm underpins sweet, floating synth lines, flanked by a smatter of grinding delays and fractured vocal snippets.

Tighter, housier and deeper than his usual style, it’s testament to Matt’s impressive versatility – watch this guy take over in 2008.

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