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| Label: | Simple | | Rel. date: | 26th Feb 07 | | Cat No: | SIMPLE0722 | | Format: | 12" | | Genre: | deep house | | Rating: |   | | Rated by: | Sebastian Napora |
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- Original Mix
- Konrad Black Remix
- Sideshow Remix
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 By official press release: ‘Sequential Circus’ is the first release in a new collaboration between friends and studio buddies Will Saul and Tam Cooper. Since the release of his critically acclaimed album ‘Space Between’ on Simple in 2005, Will has spent most of 2006 engineering Simple’s fine release schedule and lovingly coaxing into life his new baby Aus Music. An EP for Systematic, his single ‘Pause’ on Simple and remixes of Content (Jesse Rose) and Chicken Lips were his only forays into the production world. 2007 looks set to be different. He’s just finished remixes for Initial Cuts and Freerange and 2007 will see the release of his Simple Sounds compilation to celebrate the 5th Anniversary of the label. Tam has been producing for the past decade under a number of different guises as well as engineering for the great and the good. Fiddling with analogue kit is his main passion and he is also a talented drummer and percussionist. Once a teenage raver, Tam has found his way back to house and techno in recent years, enthused by a new wave of artists. You’ll be hearing a great deal more from him in 2007, starting in March with his first solo outing on Simple.
For the original a chunky, bumping kick and low tom pattern drive the track while crunchy, metallic percussion sweep around the stereo range lending the track an eerie sci-fi feeling. Wistful, melancholy chords are gradually layered into the mix until a hypnotic lead melody creeps in. As the old synths intertwine, weird and wonderful harmonics are created that can only exist in the analogue world. Konrad Black produces a slow and sleazy groove that rolls and bounces in all the right places, Todd’s mix simply oozes funk. He carefully reconstructs the atmospherics whilst switching the percussion to add urgency before introducing his own lead synth that we guarantee will make people in sweaty, dark rooms scream. A massive fan of the old Sequential Circuits synth used by Will & Tam for the atmospherics, Todd was in his element for this mix.
Canadian dark-lord Konrad Black of Wagon Repair is now a resident of Berlin, where he’s a regular DJ at Panorama Bar and other hotspots of the cities enviable nightlife. His recent work has included storming remixes for Audion and Snax, with 2007 promising to be a bumper year.  Comments[0]
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Release: Will Saul & Tam Cooper - Sequential Circus
