Neville Watson - One Four Green EP

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  • With a career in production and label management that stretches well back into the '90s, Nick Woolfson started Teng Records last summer with confidence in experience. As well as a platform to showcase his new deeper, housier Akra alias, the Mock & Toof man looks to broaden the label's purview. The fourth Teng offering has Neville Watson's "One Four Green" as its centrepiece, relicensed after its initial 2011 release and accompanied by a trio of remixes. The track is trademark Watson. A raw underlay of stocky 707s, darting claps and a cavorting bassline soon finds its bravado curbed by extended flashes of fervent pads. Deep Space Orchestra crank up the emotional intensity, with shuffling snares over stifled kicks, before stripping it down to just Watson's bassline. Perseus Traxx and Johnny Aux, too, acknowledge the bassline's wicked potency: Traxx centres it between languid chimes and muted synths, while Aux adds further flavour with dashes of upfront percussion. Such close-cut homages offer little innovation—but maybe that's Watson's fault for making a bassline that's so irresistible.
  • Tracklist
      A One Four Green B1 One Four Green (Deep Space Orchestra Remix) B2 One Four Green (Perseus Traxx Remix) Digital: One Four Green (Jonny Aux Remix)
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