Foreplay

Kicking off in fine style is the 4 track Foreplay. The original mix introduces us to the yearning original vocal from Sophie Florence. She tells us to skip the foreplay, but Mali & Initial ease us in gently. The track builds-up with fluttering atmospherics, swelling synths and hyper-crisp hats until it strips right back leaving the vocal to work its emotional magic. The nostalgic 80s bleeps and analogue synths combine to create space-aged soundscape thats retro-futurist perfection. Its Brummy bass house legend Marc Spence on the remix for the second track and hes coming different! Famous for his rave-ready and rowdy bangers, the clangy, metallic drum groove and minor-key melodics tell you right from the start that hes on an altogether darker, colder tip here. The warped and wobbly bassline subtly alludes to the bass house of old, but as the spooky bells and slithering synth solo kick in, the overall sense is of rushing FWDs into a unknown future. One for the darkside ravers! On track three Tallinn comes in hard with a prime cut of UK deep tech for his remix. No fancy business, this ones all about the extra chunky bassline and whip-crack hats n claps. Its the little things that give it that special flavour though - the pitched down vocals, the off beat hollowed out bleeps and more than anything, the raucous glitchy snare fills that throw you off and keep you coming back for more. Shape cutters - your time. On the final track Initials back and bringing those UK tech-house vibes with his Terrace Dub. With its cavernous bass and its crunchy teched-out drums that come like Birmingham meets Berlin, you can almost see the sparkle in the bleary-eyes of the 6AM ravers when this one goes off. Initial lets the light in for a soaring second with its euphoric build before the second drop, but then were back to the chugging techno groove. How fitting that Seedy Records first single ends with a track simply made for the warehouses of Digbeth.