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Late Reply in full, and Meteors keeps climbing

Side Door put the whole of Late Reply up this morning, so you can bin the two minute preview from August. Three and a half minutes, and the drop I kept going on about lands at 2:43 if you want to skip ahead. I would not skip ahead.

streaming only, no download on this one

The other bit of news is that Meteors has been sitting in the Hype Machine charts for nineteen days now, which for a label this size is a genuinely daft number. Ellis Wake was playing to about forty people in a basement in March.

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Posted by J. at 10:18 AM · 23 comments · Labels: deep house, side door, cass verano, ellis wake

The piano player gets her own record: Rae Duval, Piano Weather EP (SDR002)

Quick bit of housekeeping from the Cloakroom post in August. The piano on Keep It Coming, the one I gave the stamp to and then went on about for a paragraph, is not Cass Verano. It is Rae Duval, who was booked for an afternoon of overdubs and ended up writing half the track. Side Door have given her SDR002, which is the correct outcome.

Piano Weather is the same trick as the Verano track, played by the person who invented it, and it goes further: five minutes, and the piano never once behaves. The dub sits right behind it on the A-side with the drums pulled back and the chords left alone in a room, which is the one I will still be playing in November. Flip it over for Piano in the Dark, the sad one, and it is very good at being the sad one.

Out at the end of the month.

Posted by J. at 2:26 PM · 38 comments · Labels: deep house, side door, rae duval, cass verano

Preview: Cass Verano, Cloakroom EP (SDR001)

Side Door is new, a Free Entry offshoot for the blunter end of the catalogue. SDR001 is Cass Verano, a name I had never seen until three weeks ago, and I have played all three of these out since Friday. Two-minute previews below, since that's all they've given anyone.

The stamp doesn't come out often. Keep It Coming earns it: the riff lands about a minute in and stays there for the rest of the track, played a hair ahead of the grid like somebody's actually sat at the thing. Rush Hour opens the record and does the heavy lifting, chopped tight and rolling. Late Reply swings the drums and holds its vocal back until the last drop. Three tracks, three keepers. Buy it when it lands.

Posted by J. at 4:02 PM · 52 comments · Labels: deep house, side door, cass verano, preview