Honolulu’s foremost house label Asylum Confidential continues to do what it does best here, serving up a tasty new release from Loic Tambay, complete with remixes from Matt Fear and Clint Stewart.
Born in Switzerland but based in Hawaii, Loic Tambay has always been obsessed with electronic music and is now a local legend for his seamless DJ sets. These new tracks also prove he is a studio craftsmen at one with his art. Opener ‘Hotbox’ is a hip swinging and late night house affair with plenty of creepy charm. Darkly filtered vocals bleed in around spooky synth lines and twinkly night sky stars: it’s a fantastically moody piece.
Leeds’ Matt Fear, who has made waves with his nu-disco and modern house sound on labels likeHot Waves, ups the ante, layering in squelchy and engaging drums and slightly more freaky,paranoid synth lines that truly keep you on your toes. The second remix comes from fast risingAmerican talent and Poker Flat associate Clint Stewart. His version strips things back to a moodyand effective finger click, warm kicks and floating synth chords. It grows into a spine tingling affairthat works on both body and mind.The other original from Loic Tambay is ‘Tilt’, which is another pleasingly sombre house cut withsad and heavy chords, distant dusty breakbeats and wavy drums in the foreground. Someechoing sax notes bring colour and sensuality to what is a nicely considered and truly emotive bitof music. On this evidence, Loic Tambay is soon to break out into the wider world with an army of new found fans.
