UPC: 827170487161! ! Release : 25.02.2013
Tracklist EP: A1. Raw and Rugged A2. Estate B1. Early Days B2. Early Days (Legowelt Remix)
Short info:
Rhythm and melody, the beat and the bass - that's what proper club music is all about. And with current Chihouse revivalists galore, it's really hard to come up with something really true to the roots, and brilliantly fresh at the same time. Recognition Recordings, run steadily by Jacek Sienkiewicz, Poland's true visionary of contemporary club beats in a world of post-techno, passes its 30th release with this four-track marvel of an EP by one Chino. A nickname of one Artur Oleœ, a modest analogue gear freak and award-winning graphic designer known for his stripped-down, monochromatic eye candies, delivers some truly timeless variations on the classic theme. It's all there - simple, but cleverly constructed beats, lovely, dreamy melodies flowing on top of the nastiest, rawest and most moving baselines heard for a long time this side of Atlantic. It's proper house business here - not a shade of stylings abundant nowadays, this is true music coming from the heart and mind of a gifted musician, choosing a hard road of analogue machinery instead of easy route of software plugins. The EP starts with Raw and Rugged , where Chino explains his use of samples by - yes, a sample explaining why the samples are legit when it comes to sampling. Sounds crazy? Yes, unless you hear this timeless piece of, well, sample-driven, raw, muscular house music. Estate is yet another exercise in meaty, warm analogue bass music, iced with dreamy melody. Early Days is an instant party classic - like a long-lost gem from back in '87, an analogue groove with a monstrous bass hook and crystal-clear machine drums, iced with a lovely melody. It goes even further with a storming remix from Legowelt, the man who can do no wrong at the moment… A dense, tight, peak-time rework from one of the true purveyors of proper analogue sound. All this, pressed in high quality wax makes yet another party tool from Recognition. In its digital version, Chino's EP is complimented by "Tatry", a somewhat melancholic, but no less uplifting piece of techno soul - sounding very retro and futuristic at the same time. More