John Daly - Organ Track

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  • Any producer labouring under the illusion that making a deep house record merely involves adding sax samples or some "tasteful" chords to their clicky laptop beats should check out "Organ Track." While it doesn't reinvent the wheel and is more concerned with honing the sounds pioneered nearly 20 years ago in New York, the production is so rich and warm that it immediately stands out. The Irish producer may disagree, but "Organ Track" sounds like he has been listening to a lot of Nu Groove material. The moody, subsonic bass, which snakes and pulses its way through the main mix, captures those same mixed emotions—barely contained euphoria crossed with an uneasy sense about what's coming next—that prevailed on the New York label's output. That Daly manages to heighten these feelings with the kind of evocative, haunting organ riff that Nu Groove used to specialise in without sounding trite or samey says a lot about his production capabilities: the fact that he does so using fat beats that dwarf most of his peers' efforts means that "Organ Track" is one of 2010's most distinctive house records. The alternate versions veer from a bleepier groove complemented by shaking percussion and a more driving dubby approach—which again replicates the working methods of '90s NY house/garage producers—but it's the original in all its spine-tingling, goosebump-arousing brilliance that this reviewer will keep turning to.
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      A Organ Track (Main Mix) B1 Organ Track (Bouns) B2 Untitled
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