Citing everything from the NYC house music of Tenaglia, Junior Vasquez and MAW to the pop music of The Beatles as musical influences, Ludovic De Pass makes an electrifying debut for Claude Monnet’s Analog imprint.
Infused with Latin heat, oozing sexual grooves and with a use of percussion that could moonlight as the sound track to a David Attenborough rain forest special; Brazilian Sonata EP is as elegantly finessed, as it is innately primal.
Kicking off with the Original Mix of Brazilian Sonata, De Pass delivers a true Ibiza summer session anthem that unashamedly calls on your body to move. Layer upon layer of percussion, muted drums, dreamy synths and earthy rhythms carry faint strains reminiscent of early liquid drum & bass. Sucking you in, it’s like happening at a rave in the middle of the Amazon. Claude Monnet’s Drum Interpretation Mix takes the original and gives it an altogether darker twist, using wooden percussion samples with genius precision to evoke noises of the night, inducing a slightly more eerie feel while managing to keep the rhythm and the pace of De Pass’s Original cut.
Second track on the EP, Shabbaz, keeps with the dark and deep vibe of its predecessor. The Douala Mix blends together muted percussion, popping rhythms, sweeping filters, deep and gentle bass sounds and brush drum effects to create a gorgeously dubby, deep house track that still has its feet firmly in the South American country. With an elegantly delicate break, Douala’s edit is as much at home in a chill-out session as it is on the deeper dance floors. Meanwhile the Sugarhill Mix injects such a huge dose of funk with its bass-licking rhythm guitar, it sounds like the track wandered out of the Amazon and ended up in Spanish Harlem. The Dub, as expected, strips most of the higher elements out, but with a track so dominated by rhythmic sections, even with a reduction in parts it still maintains its chugging drive and tribal momentum.
Ludovic De Pass – Brazilian Sonata EP is released on Wednesday May 25th 2011 on www.beatport.com.
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