- A new label helmed by DJ Qu cohort Joey Anderson kicks off with a perversely slight but thrillingly schizophrenic release filled with four tracks, all of them raw. Anderson's "Organistic" is house reduced to a murmur, a blippy bassline (just this side of the slap-bass style favored by dudes who move their necks a lot when they play) tapped out almost as an afterthought, some spare clacks and a bit of adenoidal synth all thin and wispy in the distance. DJ Qu's "Alone I See" follows with not much more, though the few parts in it are made to glide and bounce from side to side, especially the desiccated drum sounds panned from left to right and back again. There's an almost psychedelic sparseness to the first two tracks, and then a definitely psychedelic psychedelic-ness to the other two that follow.
Both by Anderson, "Listen Up" and "Party in the Kitchen" up the energy and sense of sinister edge. "Listen Up" runs an extremely squishy and almost atomized acid line over a steady house stomp, with static-electricity hi-hats over top and some inscrutable tribal vocals caterwauling in the middle. "Party in the Kitchen" is slower but more insistent, the whole thing singed and still smoldering after whatever happened to make the situation so. A ghostly voice, dripping in echo, makes you wonder as it repeats, over and over, "After that, we clean the kitchen..."
Tracklist A1 Joey Anderson - Organistic
A2 DJ QU - Alone I See
B1 Joey Anderson - Listen Up
B2 Joey Anderson - Party In The Kitchen