Nivek Tsoy, the producer with the exotic sounding name, adequately first surfaced on the scene with a track on Dessous‘s recent extraordinairy compilation „Best Kept Secrets“. Even though this following exciting debut 3-tracker is bound to pull him out of anonymity immediately, personal infos about this remarkably talented guy is hard to come by. The only result of an extensive internet research is a rather unattented Myspace profile maintaining the enigmatic beatsmith‘s location is Usbekistan. Some smartass wordacrobats out there will fumble around with the name and argue that if you spell Nivek Tsoy backwards you come up with the name Kevin Yost: the veteran producer who made a big splash in the houseworld and secured legendary status with his very first outings for Guidance and especially I!-Records. Cuts like „One Starry Night“ single-handedly gave a new definiton to the term „jazz-house“ with it‘s fluid guitar licks, the exuberant drum programming and it‘s unique fusion of bandstand atmosphere and electronics. Granted Kevin Yost appears as one of the few friends in Tsoy‘s Myspace profile and the conservatory studied percussionist often ventured into less obviously jazz influenced terrain especially with the popular tribalistic series „Bongo Madness“, but the dark sizzling atmosphere with it‘s haunting futuristic sounds, the totally fresh combination of heavy oldschool house dubs and more recent minimalism just seems so different from the style he’s famous for. I gotta admit though that Tsoy sensibility for hard-hitting grooves and the density of programming and arrangement matches Yost‘s mastery. But frankly: which punter gives a damn about the true identity of the producer and all these nerdy bio details anyway if he gets a good bodyworkout, which every single one of these cuts will provide in fine style.



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