- The debut single from Steve Mizek's (majordomo of Little White Earbuds, former contributor to RA) Stolen Kisses label lays out the imprint's agenda pretty shrewdly. I was tempted to label Hakim Murphy's "Infinite Sensations" "microhouse," but that wouldn't be quite right. It isn't that the year isn't 2002 or something—though that probably helps—so much as that what Mizek's fellow Chicagoan Murphy does has a phantom quality, thanks to the spacious sound design: piano trills off in the distance (paging Perlon-era Akufen), bass surges right up front, flickering percussion galore. It's velvety, not staticky.
Lovely as Murphy's track is, it's merely a warm-up for L.A.-based UR hand Santiago Salazar's pair of remixes. Where the original spreads its many little parts wide over the stereo field, the "S2 Grind Mix" puts them through pulsating filtering, particularly when he makes new bridges from the piano and hi-hat parts. (It's announced by halting the beat, to good dramatic effect.) The real prize, though, is a thin-toned, askew cymbal crash that jumps in, triumphantly, every few bars. It's the track's new hook, its crowning element. The "S2 Sucio Remix" goes Latin in the rhythm, with a thin wah-wah guitar and small battery of percussion given a bubbly dusting of effects.
Tracklist A Infinite Sensations
B1 Infinite Sensations (S2 Grind Remix)
B2 Infinite Sensations (S2 Sucio Remix)