Play ‘Loud’, play proud: rising imprint du jour Diversions hits a new exciting chapter... First the label founders Oxia and Nicolas Masseyeff launched the label with a powerful collaboration, then the following two releases have seen them each take the reins for two equally show-stopping dispatches. Now as we hit their label’s fourth release, Oxia and Nicolas have invited their friends into the fold to open up a whole new Diversions panorama, Friends like Moan moguls Artslaves.
Grafting at the tech house coal face with some impressive toolmanship and machinery, the duo comprising Napolitans Alessandro Rondinone and Domenico Gei have shown serious groove prowess since launching in 2012. These tracks are no exception.
‘Loud’ boasts a deep funk coded drum arrangement that’s galvanised by slinky, hip-teasing percussion and a hooky, infectious humanised rhythmic textures. Rolling deep into the unknown with its bulbous low end, it truly lives up to it name.
‘Tandemos’ steps out with similarly crunchy, warm and relentless drums. Chugging chunks that set a firm bedrock for a hypnotic one-line vocal sample and the gentle decay into one of Artslaves’ most cosmic
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Artslaves - Loud EP (inc. POPOF / OXIA & Nicolas Masseyeff Rmxs)
breakdowns to date.
Premium groove quality is maintained throughout the remixes as Oxia & Nicolas Masseyeff take on ‘Loud’ with a plate-shifting drum flourish, harmonic off-beat bass and percussive linearism that gives space for the vocal to thrust through the mix at high voltage. Oxia’s Parisian peer, cult DJ and Form Music boss POPOF renders his own interpretation of ‘Tandemos’, injecting several layers of caustic bass pressure and a strong sense of mischief.
Exemplary Diversions from the norm: Oxia & Nicolas Masseyeff’s label is beginning to take sterling shape right here. We can’t wait to hear what they have next.
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released July 14, 2017