AquAdro - Broken Heart EP
Airhead drags the "Broken Heart" surface-noisy overlays over a trudging beat in a night-ride-home kind of way, with occasional splashes of vocals and piano to remind us of its origins, with groove settles into something both approachable and hard-driving, as deep kick drums push hard below understated synth blips and bubbling pads.
Perhaps it's not as "tricky" to get as the introduction may have you believe: It's just that AquAdro work seems steeped in contradiction, making it difficult to understand if he's going for beauty or menace, dance floor or beanbag. Is trippy but is just club-oriented enough to potentially work while the EP's title track is a slow burning breathy mid-tempo groover.
On "The End" long strummed acoustic piano echo out while beautifully subtle clicky hi-hats pitter-patter on top, punctuated by the sort of tight clavi bassline. These elements are undone by pitch modulating oscillators that take almost into psychedelic territory. It's one of the few sounds that you'll hear throughout—whether you want to or not—and it's what strikes him out as unlike almost anyone elseout there at the moment.
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Tracklist:
01.Broken Heart (Original Mix)
02.The End (Original Mix)
Label: Insomniafm Records
Cat: IFMR016
Release: July 26th 2011
Style: Progressive House