American house music's most underrated yet intriguing producer continues a striking run of releases with this 12" for France's Latency label. As with DJ Qu, Joey Anderson approaches his grooves with a background as a dancer, and to anyone else who can't resist the 'floor, this shows so damn effectively in his music. It's all in the subtlety of syncopation between driving kicks, sinuous hi-hat patterns and glyding synth contours; micro-rhythmic narratives articulated with supreme elegance and sublime intent. A-side he even leaves the bassline out to let the track float in mid-air, encouraging freer interpretation of the groove, begging us to dance between the kicks and those silvery, airborne keys; B-side the mantra of "mindset, mindset, It's definitely a mindset" together with humming b-line and aerated vibes strongly recalls Shackleton's 'Blood On My Hands' as an hypnotic exercise in spellbinding groove control, and then there's the lip-bitingly direct and slinky 'Attitude' with sparse, elegant arrangement of vocal harmonies and bleeps breezing about rippling Afro-Latin shuffles and pounding kicks, somehow coming off like some New Music composer working to the 'floor, but far less pretentious, painless and instinctively organic than that may sound.
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American house music's most underrated yet intriguing producer continues a striking run of releases with this 12" for France's Latency label. As with DJ Qu, Joey Anderson approaches his grooves with a background as a dancer, and to anyone else who can't resist the 'floor, this shows so damn effectively in his music. It's all in the subtlety of syncopation between driving kicks, sinuous hi-hat patterns and glyding synth contours; micro-rhythmic narratives articulated with supreme elegance and sublime intent. A-side he even leaves the bassline out to let the track float in mid-air, encouraging freer interpretation of the groove, begging us to dance between the kicks and those silvery, airborne keys; B-side the mantra of "mindset, mindset, It's definitely a mindset" together with humming b-line and aerated vibes strongly recalls Shackleton's 'Blood On My Hands' as an hypnotic exercise in spellbinding groove control, and then there's the lip-bitingly direct and slinky 'Attitude' with sparse, elegant arrangement of vocal harmonies and bleeps breezing about rippling Afro-Latin shuffles and pounding kicks, somehow coming off like some New Music composer working to the 'floor, but far less pretentious, painless and instinctively organic than that may sound.
American house music's most underrated yet intriguing producer continues a striking run of releases with this 12" for France's Latency label. As with DJ Qu, Joey Anderson approaches his grooves with a background as a dancer, and to anyone else who can't resist the 'floor, this shows so damn effectively in his music. It's all in the subtlety of syncopation between driving kicks, sinuous hi-hat patterns and glyding synth contours; micro-rhythmic narratives articulated with supreme elegance and sublime intent. A-side he even leaves the bassline out to let the track float in mid-air, encouraging freer interpretation of the groove, begging us to dance between the kicks and those silvery, airborne keys; B-side the mantra of "mindset, mindset, It's definitely a mindset" together with humming b-line and aerated vibes strongly recalls Shackleton's 'Blood On My Hands' as an hypnotic exercise in spellbinding groove control, and then there's the lip-bitingly direct and slinky 'Attitude' with sparse, elegant arrangement of vocal harmonies and bleeps breezing about rippling Afro-Latin shuffles and pounding kicks, somehow coming off like some New Music composer working to the 'floor, but far less pretentious, painless and instinctively organic than that may sound.
American house music's most underrated yet intriguing producer continues a striking run of releases with this 12" for France's Latency label. As with DJ Qu, Joey Anderson approaches his grooves with a background as a dancer, and to anyone else who can't resist the 'floor, this shows so damn effectively in his music. It's all in the subtlety of syncopation between driving kicks, sinuous hi-hat patterns and glyding synth contours; micro-rhythmic narratives articulated with supreme elegance and sublime intent. A-side he even leaves the bassline out to let the track float in mid-air, encouraging freer interpretation of the groove, begging us to dance between the kicks and those silvery, airborne keys; B-side the mantra of "mindset, mindset, It's definitely a mindset" together with humming b-line and aerated vibes strongly recalls Shackleton's 'Blood On My Hands' as an hypnotic exercise in spellbinding groove control, and then there's the lip-bitingly direct and slinky 'Attitude' with sparse, elegant arrangement of vocal harmonies and bleeps breezing about rippling Afro-Latin shuffles and pounding kicks, somehow coming off like some New Music composer working to the 'floor, but far less pretentious, painless and instinctively organic than that may sound.