Black Logic is producer Alex Arnout‘s live deep house band, with Arnout’s beats and electronics backed with live instrumentation (bass, guitar, sax) and a selection of vocalists, and this EP is his first release on Music For Freaks.
“Everything Is Confusing” is a strong, distinct, futureish deep houser full of little modulating analogue synth pulses and blips, neatly ticking percussion, and some ice-cool keys, which are all complemented by a female spoken word vocal. It’s highly polished, detached, classy almost to the point of being haughty, managing to have its own idiosyncratic impact without ever doing anything that you could describe as “banging.”
Track 2 “Get Off” is like if a raw, sweaty, jacking, disco cut up groove went to college and studied production and music theory. It’s got that jacking, looping skip, and it rolls along like a filter loop track, but there’s all sorts of instrumentation going on which meld very nicely with the synths and beats into some really effective breakdowns.
Track 3 “Mothers Eyes” is made of skippy jazz samples, boogie woogie piano licks and comes with a strolling bassline and a very tight, highly swung shuffle to it. It’s very jazz, but kind jaunty, happy jazz, which I’m sure works for some people but I’m way too cynical to enjoy something so unashamedly jolly. I much prefer the jazz beats and licks in the final track “She’s A Nobody.” It’s a quality broken beat dancefloor-jazz excursion graced by muted trumpet, a pair of electric piano chords that act as a dancefloor clarion call and a bassline that sounds like it could be a double bass jazz sample, all of which gels together into a serious jazz house jam.
Excellent four tracker.
⚪️ Breathe More Tracklisting
Alex Arnout Presents Black Logic: Breathe More EP (Music For Freaks / Digital)
1. Everything Is So Confusing (07:00)
2. Get Off (07:29)
3. Mother's Eyes (06:09)
4. She's A Nobody (06:50)
⚪️ Disclosure Statement
This record was not submitted as a promo.
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