Keita Sano

SWEET BITTER LOVE EP

Spring Theory

ST004

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San Francisco/paris-based Label Spring Theory Is Back With Its Fourth Release. Called Sweet Bitter Love, It S A Four Track Ep Of Manic Sample-driven House From Keita Sano, A Japanese Producer Who S Been On A Roll Lately With Releases For Like-minded Imprints Discos Capablanca, Mister Saturday Night, And Strictly Groove Recordings. Sweet Bitter Love Kicks Off With The Tripped-out Flair Of -once I Found A Diamond.- It S An Uplifiting Bongo-led Cut With Dubby Melodics That Sound Like The Kind Of Thing Sleeping Bag Records Would Have Put Out In The Early 80s. Jacques Renault Provides A Leaner Peak-time Version — Complete With Hard-hitting Snares And Growling Bass — Via His -once I Found A Diamond (jacques Renault Trouble Funk Remix).- Things Take A Turn For The Delightfully Weird On The Ep S Namesake -sweet Bitter Love.- Starting Like A Straightforward House Cut, It Explodes Into A Psychedelic Collage Of Spaghetti Western Guitars, Tribal Calls, Displaced Jazz Fills, And Other Forms Of Cleverly Sampled Soundtrack Exotica. The Release Wraps Up With Yet Another Curveball On -bouzouk.- Here Sano Lays Out A Subwoofer-knocking Ny Garage House Rhythm That Takes A Left Turn With Frenzied Bouzouki Playing Charting Arpeggios Through A Haze Of Echoing Foreign Voices. Taken As A Whole, Sweet Bitter Love Is That Rare Idiosyncratic Bomb Of An Ep That Will Keep Your Dancers Moving And Your Trainspotters Guessing — In Other Words, It S Spring Theory Through And Through.