Five tracks and a total of eight mixes here from rising UK talent J Fader, who hails from Portsmouth – not generally known as a hotbed of house talent – and who's had stuff out before on Clean House and Slick Music (it says here).
For our purposes today though, we're gonna have to treat Mr Fader (I very much doubt that's his real name, don't you?) as an unknown newcomer… which makes the quality of the music contained herein all the more pleasing. Cast your mind back to a time around 1995 or so, when UK garage was just on the brink of emerging but hadn't quite yet fully distinguished itself from US house – think early productions by Booker T as Underground Mass, Grant Nelson, Fran & Ricky in various guises, Gavin M in his 'DJ Face' days, etc – then you're somewhere in the right ballpark as regards the overall vibe here.
Not going to go into individual tracks one-by-one cos there's too many of them, but the EP as a whole is long on crisp, skippy beats, live-sounding basslines, warm pads, jazzy minor-key piano licks, yada yada yada… you get the idea. If you remember the days when UK garage had more in common with the deep house scene, long before loads of hip-hoppers came in and spoiled it… well, you're gonna love this. Class in a glass… of Moet, natch.
Out: This week
About: This comes atcha on Beats Me Music, who are based in the equally unlikely location of Eastbourne, and from whom this is the fourth release. Hmmm..... is there some kind of south coast 'proper house' revival going on that I don't know about, or something? That may merit some further investigation… so here's their website.
thanks for the blog on my e.p :) , your spot on about portsmouth :) , i,m from london just been living in the coast for 5 years , again your right with the 95 style uk garage that my tracks have the feel of , i was part of that scene and played in the westend of london , i used to make tracks with a guy called k-warren , we never put anything out tho he himself made a good name in the london scene at that time ,i,ve had 3 tracks signed by cleanhouse , they,ve not been released tho , since then (2010) its gone crazy ,all my latest tracks signed and unsigned are on soundcloud , i,ve got another E.P coming out on beats me music ,a 4 tracer with remixes ,which i,m happy about all in all things are starting to move forward for me , and err , yeah your right j-faders not my real name , the j is for jeff , and the faders to do with my style of mixing ,again thanks for your blob,n,feedback ! , j-fader
ReplyDeleteSorry J just seen this - so few people bother to comment I don't often check! But thanks for the update, and glad to hear all is going well - keep me in the loop!
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