teshno

last time i wrote about this label i said “immerse is a rare thing in today’s electronic music landscape… it’s actually underrated. traversing the darkened wormholes between crackling breakbeats, fizzing dubstep and sketchy techno – and despite having its roots in the bass music epicentre that is bristol – the label’s reach is far and wide with artists coming from ukraine, russia, london and the us.”

whilst all that is still true, you can now add house music into the imprint’s ever expanding pot of sounds thanks to this loose, funky two tracker from b- town production duo outboxx.

it’s not over familiar sounding house music, though, instead it seems to come from a different place – one where rounded, bouncing bottom ends are of most importance. adding colour to the warm-up 4/4 pomp of ‘kate libby’s’ are ever rising pads, wooden hits, bubbly claps and subtle hi hats for that all important sense of slide as well as bounce. a sparing ‘booooi’ vocal wins out on occasion to add the all important human touch and a combination of distant key strikes and jazzy sonic sketches blow the whole thing up into a deliciously heartfelt and organic slo-jam.

on the flip, ‘bertie’s groove’ is much more hurried where the beats, organ stabs and more metallic percussion almost fall over each other in their endlessly churning cycles. it’s reminiscent of a diynamic cut for its trackiness and instrumental flourishes, but a building mid-section and sporadic, tension-breaking flutter of keys mark it out more as a perky and quirky house number than a stale slice of dishwasher tech. again organic, again enveloped in sub bass, it’s a charming effort that draws a smile as well as a head nod which, if i were a dj, i would file under ‘classy ‘floor filler.’

buy it