Max Graef & Mic Newman – Real Dubs

LABEL: Love Fever | LFR005
GENRE: Deep House
RELEASED: 2014
MP3 DOWNLOAD SOURCE: vinyl
BITRATE: 320kbps / 44100kHz / Joint Stereo
TRACKS: 2
SIZE: 29.56 megs

1. Relaxin’ At The Flip 6:03
2. Soothe Me 6:14

This special one off collaboration sees Berlin prodigy Max Graef, coupling with globe trotter Fantastic Man aka Mic Newman. With Mic living in Max’s broom cupboard for a few vodka soaked weeks in Berlin last autumn, there was a beautiful inevitability that some music would outcome. The lead track “Soothe Me” is no noodly shrinking violet, but a grade 10-cross-genre-dance-floor-destroyer which Andy snapped up for label on first listen. Clearly taking it’s inspiration from the Rhodes and sample drenched Sound Signature Detroit label and adding in live instrumentation, tape effects, for a track rich in Steely Dan sensibility, coupled with a sub bass and twisted lead line dragging us into a new year. The B-Side Relaxin’ At The Flip is a raw slab of analogue goodness, flying 606 high hats, a tough kick drum and simple elements driving the track forwards, best heard 8am in a dark corner of a club.