Full Flavor Music is honored to welcome Wyndell Long onto the label with the Shikago Love 4 track EP. A devoted music fiend since the age of 7, Wyndell Long grew up on a steady diet of black radio during the P-Funk era in Chicago. In college Long befriended Mike Dearborn, then releasing records on DJAX, who passed the early Wyndell Long productions to Pete Hutchison over at Peacefrog Records in London. Long was immediately signed to Peacefrog which began a series of techno/tech-house singles throughout the 90′s that garnered much praise in Europe and the US. Labels such as Primate, Soma, R&S, and DJAX also caught on to Wyndell Long, leading to his tracks appearing regularly in the sets of some of the biggest global DJ names.
Long’s debut with Full Flavor Music is intentionally ‘Old School’ sounding, sure to lead folks straight to the dance floor. First up is “Soul Searching,” which thumps but in a breezy way with multi stacked pianos and an intricate arrangement that adds to the flavor. ”Always Keep It Wet” is a simple ‘jack’ track … it’s pure Chicago, no studio tricks or high sampling rates. “Damn Wireless Network” is a tribute to classic NY techno. Simple grooves, retro drum machine hits, and standard beeps and claps with a solid snare freakout section within the track. “Shikago Love” is the result of experiments with timing. The bassline and hi-hats are off the normal grid, but come together when heard in unison. There are a lot of subtle elements that move the track as something different happens about every eight bars. Analog synthesizers glide against a smoothed out high end in a way that is refreshingly pleasant to the ears, making the cut stand out amongst today’s extra hot and crispy releases.
Vinyl release date Feb 2nd 2012
Digital release date Feb 22nd 2012
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Still some vinyl copies available of December’s Compilawax Sampler at juno records
| Full Flavor Music returns to close out 2011 with the mighty Compilawax Sampler. Featured on this various artists compilation are four of the best digital selling tunes the label has previously released. Two of the four songs(Pezzner and J.Phlip mixes) remained on Beatports top 50 list for 4-5 weeks solid in 2010. “Deep Inside” written by label boss Greg Campbell gets a mind melting remix by Berlin based J.Phlip, who has previously released several top selling releases on the Dirtybird label. J.Phlip gives her signature minimal sounding bass heavy remix where the drums and breakdown literally jump out of the song in a 3D manner. Utterly wrecking the boundaries of dance music! Up and coming American producer Matthew Brian, features “Moods”, while the in-demand Pezzner gives his own take on the track, expectedly out of left field with chords and pads bent and pulled into new shapes as a bizarro vocal sample flies around on top. His genius is making this stew still work on the dancefloor, which Pezzner’s mix most certainly does. Dave Barker is known for influential material on Classic Music Company,Aesoteric,and Imperial Dub Recordings as well as his critically lauded collaboration with Brett Johnson on the Seasons album Selected Moments From The Nu House. “Into The Wilderness”, the cut on this sampler could very well be a theme song to a sinister spaghetti western, with a haunting lead line telling the story with animal samples howling in the background. Another up and coming producer Armbar gets “Cant Stop” remixed by Los Angeles’ Joshua Heath. “Can’t Stop (Music Please)” has an irresistibly bouncy bass line, some funky key work, and clever use of the original’s vocal drops. The midpoint breakdown should be a DJ set highlight. Utterly smashing. |
