Marquis Hawkes – Fifty Fathoms Deep

LABEL: Houndstooth | HTH028D
GENRE: Tech House
RELEASED: 2014
MP3 DOWNLOAD SOURCE: WEB
BITRATE: 320kbps / 44100kHz / Full Stereo
TRACKS: 4
SIZE: 60.04 megs

TRACKLIST

1. Can’t Find A Reason 6:35
2. The Way 6:34
3. Fifty Fathoms 6:02
4. Fat Man 5:47

Fifty Fathoms Deep marks the Houndstooth debut of Dixon Avenue Basement Jams member Marquis Hawkes. Interestingly, it largely eschews his raw and distorted machine funk sound in favour of a range of far smoother and polished cuts. Opener “Can’t Find a Reason” is a formidable basement house jam – a ’90s-influenced chunk of synth-bass driven garage-house that comes laden with cut-up vocal snippets and exotic melodies. Steve Downes collaboration “The Way” sounds like vintage Mr Fingers, while “Fifty Fathoms” fuses twinkling piano melodies and drifting vocal samples with a shuffling deep house rhythm. Finally, “Fat Man” draws influences from vintage ’80s electro and synth-funk, melding them into a squidgy house groover.