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Posted by pipecock (part of the review)
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but Chicago is really doing a ton of nice shit right now. I probably buy twice as much new music from the 312 as I do the 313!
There’s a crew of friends of mine and ISM who have been banging out good music in Chicago, and a bunch of them came together to make “The Pancake Sessions” for Altered Moods. Chicago Skyway takes things deep on “Pilsen Sunrise”, with long evolving pads over a restrained bongo led beat. Specter keeps it deep with the slow headnodding cut “Short Stack”, which adds horns to the mix. Steven Tang’s “Over Easy” is also brilliant late night/early morning house, less mechanical than the music he is best known for, but still with nice 909 snare action. Label head Malcolm Moore also makes an appearance with “Red Eyes & Blueberries”, a soulful track that fits right in with the theme and feeling of this release. Describing music like this is always going to sound redundant; how many times can I really use the words “deep” and “soulful” in one review? But the reality is that these cuts execute the feeling and sounds that so many are currently trying to achieve, but ultimately fail at.
Malcolm Moore also recently dropped his own EP on Altered Moods entitled “Yours In Deepness Vol. 1″. On this, he takes a varied approach to that deepness, from the downtempo “Juswannabeclose”, to the swung hi-hats and almost broken beat feeling of “T’estimo (Just A Ghost To You)”.
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