Various – As Heard At ADE

It has been, dear reader, something of a trying day, for reasons I won't bore you with. So gonna keep it to a couple of V/A eps tonight, the first of which is this seven-artist, seven-track sampler from fledgling Dutch label Trick Track Records, who recently hosted their first ADE party.

Trick Track are based in The Hague and describe themselves on Soundcloud as a "deep house/nu-disco/tech-house" label. Which is as good a way as any to describe the overall melting-pot vibe here! William Medagli & Thallulah give us Flavor Does It, a bouncy, bassy tech-house groove that uses big chunks of the Dr Love vocal – big dark rooms beckon, as indeed they do for Nicola Nolli's Mercury, which is in a similar vein but instrumental. Albert Santizzo & Micket Franc's In Zoo Boogie is a deep little chugger sporting an unlikely-sounding fusion of soulful vocal snips and Theremin-type wibbly-wobbly noises, Chris Luzz's Jungle Juice is a sparser,  tribal-inflected workout and, well, there's some more goodness in the form of strong cuts from Lightzoff, Nick Safado feat Andrea Love and Colino.

All told, it's very checkable indeed. So check it!

Out: This week

About:  Something else Trick Track have to say about themselves:

The ideal of Trick Track Records is to generate the future and the past into a unitary sound of electronic music and give the listeners a moment of quiet in the sound, finding themselves wondering with their mind in places never thought of.

I'm not entirely sure what that all means either, but anyway as well as the sound of the cloud you can find 'em on Facebook or at their own website.

Reash – Dead Center

Another fledgling label here, with this being just the third release from Trick Track Records, straight outta Den Haag in the Netherlands.

There are three mixes of Dead Center. In its original form, it's a deep techno groove with a distinctive "all night… feel it… get down" spoken/whispered male vocal sample. The Addo Remix is proggier, with much use made of Italo-style analogue synths, while the James Dax Remix also takes us into prog territory but in a deeper, more end-of-night and to these ears more satisfying fashion. Finally, rounding out the EP is bonus cut Total Control, which starts out as a fairly abstract deep/minimal techno affair before exploding into a soundscape of luxurious ambience and overdriven guitar that's reminiscent of early System 7.

It's the original of the title track I'm liking the most but fans of slightly more leftfield electronic vibes will find plenty to enjoy here.

Out: This week

About: You can find Trick Track at their own website, on Facebook or on Soundcloud.