Lith K, Chase the Feeling
There's this synth line that keeps sliding up half a step every phrase. It never resolves where you expect. 'Chase the Feeling' is out now on Outer Space Oasis. 126 BPM, 10B.
That's the whole review. Go chase it.
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Red Axes, UP
One of the pair's rare solo missives, and it came out June 28, 2024. So no, it isn't new, but it has been sitting in the rotation just right all summer. Shall Not Fade has been on a roll with these leftfield house cuts, and this one is a proper box ticker for the label's ongoing mission.
The track is literally called 'UP', and it does exactly that. It moves with a strange, stop-start momentum that doesn't let you settle. There's a vocal chop that keeps coming back at slightly different pitches each time, feels deliberate not just looped, like it's nudging you awake every few bars.
Red Axes has always been good at that weird balance between dancefloor function and pure oddity, and 'UP' captures it perfectly. It's not the biggest track on the label this year, but it might be the one you keep coming back to.
The sun is coming up, the tent is half-empty, but you're still moving, that's this record. That specific moment when the weird ones start making sense.
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2024-06-22 21:36
Alfred Beck, Need You
Alfred Beck’s “Need You” came out on Zerothree on June 21, 2024. It sits at 124 BPM and in the key of 12B.
The core of the track is the bassline. It’s actually written for the key instead of just shoved up loud to hit harder on a phone speaker. That means it carries the melody as much as the chords do. The vocal sample is short and gets chopped up, the drums stay tight, and the whole thing has that sun-bleached, after-hours melodic house feel.
The extended mix is fine if you need the extra runway for a mix, but it doesn’t add anything new, so the radio cut is the one to grab.
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13 quiet days
Adam Sellouk, The Antidote
Adam Sellouk lands on Afterlife with ‘The Antidote’, a three-track study in tension, release and everything in between.
‘Chronic’ gets its hands dirty early, a thick, rolling groove with a vocal loop that digs in and doesn’t let go. It’s built for the main room, but it’s not in a hurry. ‘Confusion’ is the quiet standout, a four-bar stumble in the middle that finds its way back to the beat before you’ve even worked out what’s wrong. It’s the kind of detail you miss the first time and can’t unhear after. ‘Poison’ closes the record with a deeper, more patient cut, all smeared pads and a low-end that sits just under the skin.
It’s a solid debut, but the real story is the context. Adam Sellouk arrives on one of the biggest labels in the genre with just 891 Deezer fans to his name. That’s not a footnote, that’s the whole point. The label is carrying the name here, not the other way round, and that’s a rare thing in 2024. It means the music did the talking.
The record still works late, past the point where people are dancing hard. It’s background enough that conversations can carry on over it, but it’s still doing something if you actually listen. That’s a hard line to walk, and Sellouk walks it well.
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