Dekata Project - Viral EP

Stars in eyes, heads in clouds and where dancing is an elegant sweat-free experience. Swanky house and a summery shimmer from Sam Sharp’s Dekata Project, putting together four tracks that’ll put you in the mood when it comes to picking which pool to dance by this summer. All for the cost of a couple of measly nuggets. 

Chloe Morgan, a sorceress with a twinkle in her peepers, charms the masses on the mic on Change My Way, with steamy keyboards doing the groundwork for a club ice-breaker that doffs its cap to Michael Jackson’s Let Me Show You the Way to Go. Sharp has enlisted Zed Bias as production partner, which has gotta be the furthest cry of all far cries considering the Z-Man’s UK garage infamy. The mind should boggle further when DP set about an ambitious cover of Semisonic’s Secret Smile, but Sharp comes up trumps alongside the affectionate Natalie Williams, a balmy bar-side wriggle flouncing like the original’s doldrums never existed.

At Least We Can Dance and Leave It both join the Project’s sophisticated conga line, unlocking subtle power made to instigate finely thrown shapes and amorous beelines. The former’s tightly-wound beats streaked with wonder are tantalised by Yvette Riby-Williams (a little like The Noisettes’ Shingai Shoniwa), and the soft horn-parping of the latter buffed by the nominally more elfin Neo Josua. If the soft-on-top production intricacies – any toughness at the EP’s core has all of its aches and pains rubbed down - aren’t markedly different for your ears, the variation in diva as well as the Project’s live angle will keep the blues at bay.