Following my previous announcement about Shur-I-Kan’s Twist EP release Urbantorque, I’d like to inform you all, that the release has been pushed back a week due to problems caused by Urbantorque’s distributor.
To quote Leigh Morgan, the Label/ A&R Manager:
It will now be released on this coming Monday on Beatport exclusively for 4 weeks.
I guess all the fans should now relax and mark Oct 6th in their calendars.
Wednesday (Sep 24th) saw the release of Motorcitysoul‘s new single on Simple Records. It’s a cross-atlantic collaboration of the Hamburg based production duo with a talented LA vocalist, Ovasoul7, who’s gained the well deserved acclaim after appearing on Deetron‘s I Cling last year.
The track is called Change You and it’s a very rhythmic and energetic deep house production topped with Ovasoul7′s mellow vocals mixed well into the music thanks to a lot of reverbs and echoes. Shur-I-Kan’s remix is more concentrated around the middle section and although the instrumentation is more busy and complex than the original, the remix creates less tension and a more relaxed atmosphere. It seems more like a dub version as Tom decided to use only little portions of the vocal.
Motorcitysoul – Change You – [Simple Records]
Audio samples from Simple Records
Change You is the first single from MCS’s forthcoming album Technique, which is due to be released on Oct 13th. It will be a second studio album for Matthias and Christian, the first one entitled Did You Expect That? came out in 2004 on a German label INFRACom!. Apart from Change You, the album will feature two other productions released earlier as singles on another label run by Will Soul, Aus Music. Lucky for those, who have already bought Kazan and/or Space Kätzle, their versions on the album will differ from the original productions. Two other cuts from the album (Solar and Hatohay) are planned to be released in November this year with remixes from Move D and Manuel Tur & DPlay.
Motorcitysoul – Technique – [Simple Records]
To listen to the album please visit Simple Records.
I am very much looking forward to Monday (Sep 29th) as it’s the scheduled release date for Shur-I-Kan’s new EP on Urbantorque Recordings. It’s called The Twist and you can find 3 tracks on it. Other than the magnificent title track, there are two versions of a tune called Gripper (Original Mix and Reprise).
As Tom said on his podcast in September, The Twist (track not the EP) had been finished a couple of months back, but could not be released earlier. Well, I’m glad it’s finally coming out, as it’s simply beautiful. You’ll find a lot of shaky percussion, little stabs, glissandos and a vocal sample. This combination makes the tune seem very alive and just makes you dance.
Gripper (Original Mix) is a different story. The beats are more on time (besides this thing that sounds like footsteps of someone on high heels) and the track is building up with all the instruments playing almost the same thing with occasional synth stabs and little EQed vocal samples. I love what Shur-I-Kan did with the strings. They’re bold yet do not stand out and don’t sound too epic. Just sort of nicely bled in… Great job!
Shur-I-Kan’s Reprise version of Gripper is a bit surprising if one is expecting an intro kind of thing with no beats in the beginning, etc. It’s basically a new full version of the track just exploring some different sections of the mix. The lower-mid part focuses around on some nice arpeggios and in the higher part, the vocal sample is repeated more often.
Be sure to check out Urbantorque’s site for more info about this release and to listen to the tracks (over here or over there)…
Shur-I-Kan – Twist EP – [Urbantorque Recordings]
Audio samples provided by Urbantorque
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