Nina Kraviz comes correct with her 2012 debut album on Rekids, released some two years after she first turned heads with her debut 12" on Jus-Ed's Underground Quality.
It's an impressive outing, reminding us a lot of Jus-Ed in its remarkable synthesis of old-school Chicago house swagger with New York deepness and the occasional Detroit-influenced overture. Her own vocals feature prominently, and there are guests too - notably King Aus on, er, 'Aus' - but these performances never feel tokenistic or grafted on.
Recent single 'Ghetto Kraviz' is included and still sounds fresh, viewing Dance Mania bumpage through a prism of narced-out Teutonic minimalism, with stalactite-like strings that remind us of those Lost Trax 12"s from a few years back. Sophisticated, moody blue deep housers like 'Taxi Talk', 'Choices' and 'False Attraction' form the backbone of the album, but inevitably it's the more off-kilter cuts that keep us locked: '4 Ben' sounds like the missing link between Cluster and Carl Craig, 'Love You Go' is a pop-acid stomp the likes of which we haven't heard since electroclash and 'Best Friend' is Chi-house elegantly unspooled, the sound of Omar-S falling asleep at the wheel of his souped-up motor.
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Nina Kraviz comes correct with her 2012 debut album on Rekids, released some two years after she first turned heads with her debut 12" on Jus-Ed's Underground Quality.
It's an impressive outing, reminding us a lot of Jus-Ed in its remarkable synthesis of old-school Chicago house swagger with New York deepness and the occasional Detroit-influenced overture. Her own vocals feature prominently, and there are guests too - notably King Aus on, er, 'Aus' - but these performances never feel tokenistic or grafted on.
Recent single 'Ghetto Kraviz' is included and still sounds fresh, viewing Dance Mania bumpage through a prism of narced-out Teutonic minimalism, with stalactite-like strings that remind us of those Lost Trax 12"s from a few years back. Sophisticated, moody blue deep housers like 'Taxi Talk', 'Choices' and 'False Attraction' form the backbone of the album, but inevitably it's the more off-kilter cuts that keep us locked: '4 Ben' sounds like the missing link between Cluster and Carl Craig, 'Love You Go' is a pop-acid stomp the likes of which we haven't heard since electroclash and 'Best Friend' is Chi-house elegantly unspooled, the sound of Omar-S falling asleep at the wheel of his souped-up motor.
Nina Kraviz comes correct with her 2012 debut album on Rekids, released some two years after she first turned heads with her debut 12" on Jus-Ed's Underground Quality.
It's an impressive outing, reminding us a lot of Jus-Ed in its remarkable synthesis of old-school Chicago house swagger with New York deepness and the occasional Detroit-influenced overture. Her own vocals feature prominently, and there are guests too - notably King Aus on, er, 'Aus' - but these performances never feel tokenistic or grafted on.
Recent single 'Ghetto Kraviz' is included and still sounds fresh, viewing Dance Mania bumpage through a prism of narced-out Teutonic minimalism, with stalactite-like strings that remind us of those Lost Trax 12"s from a few years back. Sophisticated, moody blue deep housers like 'Taxi Talk', 'Choices' and 'False Attraction' form the backbone of the album, but inevitably it's the more off-kilter cuts that keep us locked: '4 Ben' sounds like the missing link between Cluster and Carl Craig, 'Love You Go' is a pop-acid stomp the likes of which we haven't heard since electroclash and 'Best Friend' is Chi-house elegantly unspooled, the sound of Omar-S falling asleep at the wheel of his souped-up motor.
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Nina Kraviz comes correct with her 2012 debut album on Rekids, released some two years after she first turned heads with her debut 12" on Jus-Ed's Underground Quality.
It's an impressive outing, reminding us a lot of Jus-Ed in its remarkable synthesis of old-school Chicago house swagger with New York deepness and the occasional Detroit-influenced overture. Her own vocals feature prominently, and there are guests too - notably King Aus on, er, 'Aus' - but these performances never feel tokenistic or grafted on.
Recent single 'Ghetto Kraviz' is included and still sounds fresh, viewing Dance Mania bumpage through a prism of narced-out Teutonic minimalism, with stalactite-like strings that remind us of those Lost Trax 12"s from a few years back. Sophisticated, moody blue deep housers like 'Taxi Talk', 'Choices' and 'False Attraction' form the backbone of the album, but inevitably it's the more off-kilter cuts that keep us locked: '4 Ben' sounds like the missing link between Cluster and Carl Craig, 'Love You Go' is a pop-acid stomp the likes of which we haven't heard since electroclash and 'Best Friend' is Chi-house elegantly unspooled, the sound of Omar-S falling asleep at the wheel of his souped-up motor.