- Thump recently mused on the topic of wrong house, with writer Scott Oliver concluding that it "is the sound of real life in all its glorious unpredictability, its swerves and sensuality." Which nicely sums up SAN2's wonky debut. Coming out on Bobby Donny, a new enterprise from Amsterdam-based Steve Mensink (AKA Frits Wentink, half of Will & Ink), Impartial Perspective wobbles its way down an incongruent line. Like its predecessor, Mensink's Live Fast, Dwayne Young, this is house music that doesn't take itself seriously. It's not fashionable but rather weird, kooky and, well, a bit wrong.
The title track clangs and clashes drunkenly through deep house chords, nimble even in its ungainliness. It all sounds a little detuned and off-kilter, holding back enough to not entirely eat away its loveliness, and is warm and woozy without being abusive. But then there's "Distinguishing Bias," the real oddball here. Some horns get the brokedown carnival treatment, and result in a druggy house jaunt. Things take a turn for the ghoulish, but it's all silly enough to keep the nightmare at bay. Mensink steps in for a hissing rattlesnake of a remix, making "Impartial Perspective" more serious and threatening than its original but just as wonderfully wrong.
TracklistA1 Impartial Perspective
A2 Distinguishing Bias
B1 Impartial Perspective (Frits Wentink Remix)