An offering of fresh sounding techy and progressive house from the young New York label.
Ethnoreality is the type of track that is going to get a fled heregling label, such as AlterImage Records, noticed. The main and dub mixes, produced by young guns Daniel Mehes & Hirotaka Miyamoto, is a solid eight minute fusion of tech and prog house, thar makes good use of some riffy hooks and builds to a killer string-led drop at the halfway mark. Whilst not a peak time weapon, the original is the kind of early on, tone-setting track that conjures some dark and moody atmospherics.
Erphun’s take on the track lays a heavier bass on proceedings, offering a harder and full bodied techno track. The hooks are sparser and crisper, and the warm prog feel of the original is displaced by relentless kickdrums as it builds to a warped conclusion. In complete contrast, Silinder offers a subtle, bubbly take on the original, turning the prog levels up and offering plenty of wispy hooks. This is the remix that’s going to do the business for the dreamy, slower prog sets that, whilst not quite having the impact that others do, still offers the high production values.
Finally, AlterImage themselves take remix duties and offer the best edit. Less techy than either the original or Erphun’s offerings, this is an epic 4/4 filtered-house offering that feels like it is designed for peak-time old-school Ibiza. Sprinkled with sampled vocals and a strung out version of the original’s strings, this is the track that house DJs of all subgenres will find the most accessible.