Top track: Le Noir ‘Eleny’ (Radio Slave Panorama Garage Mix)

Top track: Le Noir ‘Eleny’ (Radio Slave Panorama Garage Mix)

27 November, 2007 | 11.21AM

• Written by: Zack Rico
• Filed under: Music News: le noir, radio slave

There’s nothing better than a Radio Slave hypnotic house cut, and his Panorama Garage Mix of Le Noir’s ‘Eleny’ [track No.4 in the player below] is just that.

It starts off sounding like a disco house loop, and for two minutes is devoid of a single kick drum.

Simple percussion flirts with synth stabs that are echoed back and forth to create tension and suspense.

But rather than build up towards the kick drum, the loop just keeps going. And going.

Finally when it drops, there’s an earth shattering kick drum bass combo that’ll rip apart any speaker system.

It’s the kind of bouncy house beat that clubs like London’s Secretsundaze are built upon - SS’ resident DJ Giles Smith recently put ‘Eleny’ at No.1 in his DJ chart.

The loop keeps going, whilst white noise and eerie high frequency pads warn of something bigger approaching.

Jazzy undertones invade the high synth, turning the track into a suspense-ridden trance moaner, before dropping back into that loop again.

The monotony of the track puts Radio Slave’s version of ‘Eleny’ firmly in the underground tech house category.

And coming in at 11 minutes means this is a dancefloor journey designed for only the serious minded of electronic music crowds, the one that is there for the whole night and not just for a quick boogie in between a cocktail and trying to get laid.

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