Steve SoulBasics & Martijn - Lose it EP (Baker Street)

Steve SoulBasics aka Steve Fox released solo projects involving remixes from Jay Tripwire, Vincent Kwok, Conan Liquid and Santi Touch to name just a few. ‘Out of Time’ was featured on the 2009 Hed Kandi Beach House compilation.

Martijn is a DJ/producer from Durham whose first release appeared on Kinky Vinyl in the form of ‘The Red Light EP’ in 2007. Since then, Martijn has releases signed to Subway Soul (Seed Recordings New York) and also the ‘Dusty Days EP’ on ‘Just Deep Music’.

Leeds based Baker Street Recordings have earned their reputation as one of the most exciting House music labels to emerge from the UK in recent years, featuring names such as Moodymanc, Sei A, Sasse, Lee Mortimer, Demarkus Lewis, Lil Mark and more.

Artist: Steve SoulBasics & Martijn
Release Title: Lose It EP
Label: Baker Street Recordings

1) Lose It (Jay Tripwire Remix)
2) Lose It (Steve’s Lost It Mix)
3) Lose It (Martijn Mix)

Official release date: August 2nd, 2010

Lose it first comes in the form of a Jay Tripwire Remix, and Jay delivers a glitchy tech house monster. A tough growling bassline is balanced out with smooth snares and spacey synths, before a strong lead pad comes in and raises the energy even further. Next up, the original producers both have a new spin on Lose It: Steve’s Lost It Mix is super deep, and chugs along with tribal percussion and rolling bass notes. Plucking string effects and solid layers of drums really drive this track, and it’s pure controlled production sounds crisp and punchy. Finally, Martijn takes things in a funky, jazzy direction. Loose drum loops and shuffling hi hats accompany a spliced and screwed vocal and piercing chord stabs. Those chords open up in the break before the solid drums and powerful sub bass come slamming back in.

Rating: 8 / 10

Steve SoulBasics
Martijn
Baker Street blog

Review by Lee Jarvis.