The Rimshooters - Deep Electric EP

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  • Sure, we all like envelopes to be pushed and genres to be bent. But sometimes (most of the time, maybe), you don't need to reinvent the wheel—it's enough when something just sounds good. This new set of tunes, released on the Berlin-by-way-of-Italy label Slow Motion and produced by the duo of Massimiliano Pagliara and Rotciv, sounds very good indeed. The particular wheel on display here is the same one utilized by Metro Area in the early days of this millennium: Midtempo, schematized electronic disco and boogie, precisely arranged and pristinely produced. "Calling You" borrows from the mid-'80s classic "Call Me Mr. Telephone" (the Italo disco cut by Answering Service, not the slightly more hyper Cheyne version produced by Mark Kamins), with the original's loping rhythm, guitar line and simple piano phrase augmented by a burbling 303 and a two note bassline straight out of the classic house school of bottom-end action. The title track adds cowbells, an electro-boogie bass, handclaps and some infectiously squelchy synth bits to the mix; "Like on a Peacock Island" is the moody one of the bunch. They all sound gorgeous but, arguably, overly studied—there will perhaps be some who think that everything is a bit too precise and pristine. For those folks, there's a Fabrizio Mammarella rerub of "Deep Electric," which transforms the original into a subtle disco-funk groover, its top-tier percussion arrangement (dig that ride cymbal!) adding a bit more life to the cut.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Calling You A2 Deep Electric B1 Like On A Peacock Island B2 Deep Electric (Fabrizio Mammarella Version)
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