Since 1999, producers Morgan Geist And Darshan Jesrani’s series of EP releases have always managed to find respect and approval from many of the daddies in clubland. And whether or not your tastes are discerning enough to appreciate it – the pair have cooked up an album of cuts that pretty much cements that credibility.
Casting some old classic cuts alongside new material, the album is a summation of their careers at this point in time.
An established techno artist in his own right, Geist layers on the textures whilst erstwhile New Yorker, Jesrani delivers the strutting disco-soul. Quite cleverly, the album embraces old school R&B with the android minimalism and shorn-grooves of (post) modern deep-house.
That it unapologetically references at every turn the sparkling, glitter ball glory of early club classics, is a testaments to the pair’s honesty and their roots: it’s only in knowing where you’re coming from that you know where you’re going, afterall – and what’s better – a glitter ball thick with dust and cobwebs or a glitter ball rubbed-down and shimmering?
So there you have it: clockwork Linn rhythms drum machines, dramatic Philadelphia strings, and deep, deep house funked up with an electro pulse.
Could either be the sort of record you remember – or sort of record you’ve been looking for.