Get The Curse

Get ready for a selection of contemporary and vintage numbers, loose beats, Spanish hedonism, lazy grooves, garage anthems and exclusive kicks. From Tower Hamlets to the world, this is Get The Curse playlist number eighteen.

LOSOUL The Number

The Number EP
(12″ - Playhouse - 2008)

He might not be an international superstar DJ playboy, but LoSoul has been around for enough time to walk the walk and talk the talk; the man means business and business is good. His latest release on ATA’s Playhouse imprint goes the deep way. Low-key jackin’-ish beats on the loose, a slightly dark atmosphere and melody and actually not-so original ‘disturbingly erotic dancefloor vocals’ makes this number an obvious choice for these essential moments of relapse preceding or following peak-time nonsense.

STARE5 -1

1 Part 1/3 EP
(12″ - Net28 - 2008)

Net28 is a relatively young all-star Spanish techno label, a haven for artists from Apnea, CMYK, Cyclical Tracks and Mupa. Although their first set of releases is impressive on paper with tracks from players such as Tadeo, Alex Under, Damian Schwartz Davide Squillace, Kevin Gorman and Friendly People, I’ve chosen Stare5’s effort. Clocking under six minutes, this is a straightforward Spanish-techno track with all the attitude and decadance you’d expect from a country where red bull & vodka, cheap thrills and hot-blooded electronic music co-exist peacefully in a sunny urban environment such as that of Barcelona or Madrid, for instance.

PIEMONT Bastille

Bastille EP
(12″ - My Best Friend - 2008)

This Hamburg duo has been rocking my socks since their first releases in early ‘07. I am particularly fond of their lazy bouncy grooves and catchy hooks. With its simple melody and driving bassline, this Bastille is a sensual and elegant track functionally stripped down to the bare essentials.

SOMORE I Refuse - What You Want (RIP remix)

I Refuse EP
(12″ - XL Recordings - 1997)

It all started while listening to Gavin Herlihy’s a-class GTC podcast. One of the mix’s outstanding tracks is without doubt Herlihy’s own edit of a garage house gem from 1995 released on I! Records by trio Somore. The ‘08 Zeitgeist being what it is, I was thrilled to listen to some incredibly sexy and efficient house. Thanks to the wonders of online hypertext technology, I was able to find more about this track which I’d totally ignored back then, as I was more preocuppied by the problems an eight year old had to face back in the day to survive in a world crippled by violence, substance abuse and filtered house. There are a few great remixes of this song. Obviously, I had to chose the one that reeks of Garage in favour of the more stripped down Phil Week remix. Since they’re all playing house of various quality these days, I reckon it’s now or never to undig some of the genre’s best shizznit. The dancefloor crew likes it too, as I have found out in action, and after a few minutes even the most virulent anti-house people get jackin’. This one is for all my straight-up homosexual-house-lovin’ gangsters.

ED DAVENPORT Quest For Kicks

Gumption 11 EP
(12″ + digital only release - Gumption Recordings - 2008)

Not many releases from budding East-London based Ed Davenport, but with his name on Leftroom and Liebe*Detail labels, you know there’s something going on. His next EP, to be released on Gumption late in March is a special one. Ed’s sound is particularly distinctive blend of “reduced house and techno”, with a quasi-Chillean sensibility for understated grooves and melodies. Quest For Kicks is the digital only bonus track of that EP. I can totally relate to its elegant and subtle vibe, and also to the excellent, French-accented social commentary on mankind’s discovery of the concept ecstasy. Intelligent vocals (wait for them at the third minute!), for once. I am looking forwards to the irony of playing this out early on a Sunday morning to an army of wide-eyed gurning zombies in a public toilet or any equally decadent Eastern venue.

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