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If this item in stock, then you will get an infomation E-Mail!Hot City is dropping some severely skewed house music, twisting it up with his own blend of jackin chicago house, 2step/UKG, and bass bumpers. With only two tracks sent out to a handful of the finest DJs around in the past few months, he s secured two gigs playing out at Wifey, certainly the most fun club in London at the moment, and managed to generate a fair amount of hype already: - Smash, this is a mega rave hit bro, nice one! - Drop The Lime (T&B / NYC) - Very nice, thanks for this, will def play it - Hudson Mowhawke (Warp / Glasgow) - I really like both these tracks, kinda minimal garage, very cool - Hannah Holland (Batty Bass / London) The tracks on this new 12 inch build on the momenetum, with two tracks of stripped down dancefloor killers - >Yeah!< is a monster builder, all Todd Edwards style swing and tight edits with crazy deep kicks, chopped up vocals, old school piano stabs, soaring strings, and hands in the air breakdowns. Already being played out by Drop The Lime (check his latest exclusive mix for FACT magazine where he opens his set with >Yeah!<). >Head Work< on the B side is on more of a Masters at Work/Harddrive era tip - deep Garage beats tripping over themselves, burbling oddity synths, shuffling snares and the weirdest vocal melody breakdown/build-up ever! The originals are complimented on the 12 inch by two remixes - TVO takes Yeah! to another dimension altogther with a head destroying 140bpm hardcore junglist remix. On the flip, San Franciscos Eats Tapes take >Head Work< into the wonkiest area of minimalist techno, showcasing their totally unique take on future groove. The EP has been mastered by the irrefutable Shawn Hatfield/Twerks special touch, bringing out the strengths of each track and tweaked for that perfect crisp warm vinyl pressing.
Reviews
"The eccentrically eclectic Highpoint Lowlife imprint fires off their finest release in ages on the debut 12" from massively tipped producer, Hot City with two shockingly fresh house mutations backed with a mangled Eats Tapes remix. Hot City is involved with the eager Wifey crew based in Hackney, London, looking to bring the shiny sound of Bassline house and other forms of rethunked gutter housisms to those in the know, and on 'Yeah' he manages to wrap up some 15 years of developments from rave to UKG to with a solid base of tough Chicago box beats with no intention other than to jack your body proper. The old skool pianos could be Carl Cox circa 1993, while the beats are like a laminated DJ Sneak production and the attitude is just Hot City. The 'TVO Has the Anti-Life Equation Mix' oddly runs with a mutant hardcore vibe given the 2008 treatment, but we've been bowled over by 'Head Work', a wiry mesh of itchily swung Todd Edwards funk with Akufen levels of production bashed into something deceptively raw and effective. Eats Tapes finish the pack with a psychodelic analogue revision of 'Head Work' losing the floor bomb effect for a locked in head groove for the craftier DJs. This is pure house goodness and should be compatible with any of your related sub genres, get spinning! Tip!"
Boomkat
"As Roska resurrects pure House music from London and Chicago, so Hackney's Hot City looks towards early 90s New York and the height of US Garage, channeling Todd Edward's and Masters At Work's Harddrive guise into straight-ahead cascades of pianos, vocal cut-ups, high string stabs and relentlessly shuffle quantised beats, that speak purely and evocatively of disco lights and glitter. The Village Orchestra rework "Yeah!" into a weirdly muffled rave meander, and Eats Tapes add R2D2 squirts and chirrups to "Headwork", doing the Villalobos trick of ticking along in almost total stasis until the exact moment of boredom/hypnosis then pulling a switchback and making everything clear and new. But it's the purity of drive and the ambition of the original tracks that win here by a country mile."
The Wire, Critical Beats, Joe Muggs, Feb 2009
