Quarion - Busted Moniker

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  • The vinyl-only Retreat label, run by Yanneck Salvo (AKA Quarion) and Hauke Freer (half of Session Victim), has been silent since the Treats Vol. 5 compilation from last spring, and Quarion himself hasn't released anything in about as long. It's a pleasure to have both back on the four-track Busted Moniker, which alights on shades of ambient, jazzy house and broken beat with equal skill. Brief opener "Lost Coordinates" is billed as the follow-up to "Enter Coordinates," Salvo's contribution to that fifth Treats. It inverts the track's sparky keys into something drifting and thoughtful, but is more of a year-late coda than a standalone track in its own right. "A Thousand Questions" doesn't let its Rhodes-flecked jazz touches get in the way of club-readiness, with a sleek vocal loop and restless percussive shuffle adding both texture and momentum. On the flip, "Burnin'" basks in a diva-ish vocal, but doesn't rely on it entirely—urgent percussion and siren-like keys chip in to enliven it all. "You Were The Only" takes us back to the lounge, its broken-beat spine swaddled in glowing piano notes and a deliciously limber bass groove.
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      A1 Lost Coordinates A2 A Thousand Questions B1 Burnin' B2 You Were The Only
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