Various Artists - Kolourful You 2 EP (Kolour)

Kolour Recordings are a Detroit label releasing underground house which fuses the lines of funky, deep and soulful house with their own unique sound. Aside from the label Kolour also run a charity called House Is The Cure. Proceeds from each release go to various charities throughout the world.





Artist: Various Artists
Release Title: Kolourful You 2 EP
Label: Kolour Recordings

1) Huxley - Dark Bourbon
2) Deymare - Let’s Get Together
3) Two Deep - Be Right
4) Howard Sessions - Eddible Organics
5) Simon Weiss - Six Seven Jazz

Official release date: August 11th, 2010

Kicking off this EP is the awesome talent of Huxley. Dark Bourbon is slow, broody house music. Long string sweeps and gently swaying percussion kick into a deep and chugging groove, with sharp metallic stabs. Various male and female vocal snippets fade in and reverb away, each element having it’s own space and clear position in the mix. A great addition to the current slo-mo / nu-disco movement. Let’s Get Together is another slow groover. Taking influence from classic house records of the 90s, Deymare delivers something not unlike a lot of early Tweekin releases. Soft, skippy snare drums and cowbells alongside a smooth rolling bassline keeps things simple, as layer upon layer of pads and stabs filter in and out. Be Right takes sample from an infamous house track of the 90s, but uses it subtly enough as to not seem cheesy or plagiaristic. Solid drums and soft filters keep things interesting in the beginning, and soon enough, during the breakdown, those filters open up and the chopped organ riff takes hold. A skillful take on a classic sample. Howard Sessions serves up an impressively smooth deep-houser in Eddible Organics. Solid, stabbing chords underline a shiny vibe melody, and the zapping minimal percussion does just enough to punctuate whilst letting the instrumentation lead. Rounding things up is Six Seven Jazz by Simon Weiss. The dubby repetitive bass guitar and organ stabs create plenty of tension throughout, and the jazzy saxophone and horn riffs are used sparingly - barely single notes at times. Simply drum programming and some live drum sounds are added, keeping this track understated, and yet very powerful.

Standout Track: Huxley - Dark Bourbon
My Cuppa T Rating: 9/10

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Review by Lee Jarvis.