Trikk – Midnight Sequence EP
HYPELTD013
(HypeLTD)

A1. Midnight Sequence
A2. Back To Back
B1. Labour 91
B2. Prime Time

12” release date: 12” – 28/10/13
Digital – 11/11/13 (Beatport 2 week exclusive)

Hypercolour offshoot, HypeLTD, return for more stellar underground house business with a super 4 track release from Trikk.

The Portuguese DJ and producer has been bubbling away for the last 24 months, releasing some solid records on labels like Terrain Ahead, Container and Man Make Music.  His HypeLTD debut sees him plunder the roots of underground house with fresh impetus.

‘Midnight Sequence’ is a dark, driving, tour de force, no doubt influenced by fellow Portuguese legends Underground Sound Of Lisbon, with it’s deep bass, air horns and white noise over a deadly drum arrangement.

‘Back To Back’ plunders a similar dark path, shades of London Jungle-ism in this one, whilst ‘Labour 91’ is an altogether more upbeat track, classic Todd Terry-esque rolling drums and Chi-town house cut ups keeps the energy flow.  

Wrapping up the EP is ‘Prime Time’, more on point house business here from Trikk, again with influences clearly in the Windy City variety of house music.

All outstanding productions here from Trikk, with a nice variety of tracks for all persuasions. 

[Selected DJ reactions]
Eats Everything (Dirtybird) – Great release, love it!
Citizen – so good!
Severino (Horse Meat Disco) – Great release, ‘Labour 91’ is killer!
Maxxi Soundsystem (Futureboogie) – Damn fine EP, I’ll be dropping Midnight Sequence for sure
Guy Andrews (Hotflush) – Sweet, nice release
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs – I like Trikk’s stuff a lot, this is great
Tensnake (Defected) – nice to see Trikk on Hypercolour, massive release
Joris Voorn (Rejected) – love the dark atmosphere on these tracks
Ben Westbeech (Breach) – Back To Back to dope, great stuff
Redlight – nice vibes, raw!
Jesse Rose – it’s fuckin’ tuff!
Roman Fluegel – Back To Back is the one for me
Matt Tolfrey (Leftroom) – great EP, exciting talent
Waifs & Strays – the whole EP is bomb!
Deetron – Midnight Sequence is a killer, love the bassline and Labour 91 is a great tool as well


Trikk - Midnight Sequence EP (HYPELTD013) [clips]

Impérieux debuts on Hessle Audio with the Fena EP, an immersive collection of 4 tracks defined by his unpredictable and varied sonic palette. Drawing on a heritage that threads through Turkey, Greece and his home city of Kırcaali in Bulgaria, Alper Durmush channels a turbulent year in which six months of creative stillness ignited unexpectedly into an explosive burst of musical ideas.

"Fena is a word my Mum used to call me as a kid" recounts Durmush on the title track. "The name comes from Turkish, but with a Balkan twist, it means a mischievous rascal - wild, unpredictable, a bit too much at times". This restless energy is perfectly captured with jittering interferance and snarling sawtooth synths bursting through the mix, threatening to overwhelm the speakers and sending sound engineers running for cover. 'Sickomode' encapsulates the push-pull emotional sensibility of the EP, with confidence and meloncholy rotating, shifting, and giving way to each other.

'Saat' is an attempt to recreate a track based solely on a surreal description, relayed by a veteran of the rave scene in his home town - "This guy told me about a festival in the woods back in the early 2000s, where someone played a track with dogs barking in the break - the volume rising constantly." The initial dissonance of its detuned lead releases into a euphoric rush of melody, a combination which is becoming something of a producer trademark. The EP closes with the quiet, unwavering warmth of 'Cawuso', a nickname for a person that the artist met last year. "This very special person showered me with kindness and purity. It almost felt unreal, so I decided to dedicate this track to them." 

Fena EP

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Impérieux - Fena EP [Snippets]

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