Cult label Zombie Soundsystem keeps on serving up the tasteful house and tech goods here with a brand new EP from long time talents Ray Okpara and Rick Sanders.
Ray Okpara has been turning out the percussive and infectious jams on labels like Mobilee, Oslo and Saved Records for almost ten years now. The AMA Recordings boss here works with one of his signings, aka Italian producer and DJ Rick Sanders.
Opener Turn Up is a heavy, dark roller with forceful drums and scraping percussive sounds that verge on techno but stay at house tempos. It’s one to get rooms marching and Stapping is then a more unhinged and dinky cut with snaking bass, loopy drums and freaky synth sounds really drilling into your brain. Lastly, Discotool is a tense cut with lots of filters, thundering claps and percolating bass riffs that is brilliantly imposing.
Once again then Zombie Soundsystem comes up with the mischievous late night goods.
DJ Support from
John Digweed, Marco Carola, Paco Osuna, Steve Lawler, Riva Starr, Damian Lazarus, DJ T, Gel Abril, Onno, Reboot, Gorge, Robert Owens, Stacey Pullen, Davide Squillace, Ramon Tapia, Christian Burkhardt, Horatio, Atapy, Joyce Muniz, Severino, Marc Poppcke, and many more!
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