IT was only the other
day I was thinking to myself that you really don’t get enough clarinet in house music. Then
blow me along comes the new solo EP from the sublimely-talented Rai Scott – she of Inner Shift Music fame – absolutely brimming with the bleedin’ lesser-spotted woodwind wonder.
Honestly though, the
Edinburgh-based artist’s charming Clarinet Moods, only the second EP on the
already-promising No More To Roam – sister label to Contrast-Wax – is not only ridiculously good, it’s
also a bit of a breath of fresh air in a world dominated by
sterile, lowest-common-denominator dance-music.
The title track comes
in two versions; sultry and even more sultry. Well, officially the Melody Mix
and the Lazy Dub but both take low-slung hot and steamy house music to the
borders of sexy before actually straying into late-night Channel 4 adult
foreign film territory. Not that I’ve ever seen any. Honest.
Both takes on the same
tune are seriously enchanting, haunting and drop-dead gorgeous. Scott and the folks
behind No More To Roam both deserve great credit for sticking to their guns and
putting quality to the fore rather than a knee-jerk commercial impulse to
include a ‘banger’.
Move To The Front does wrap up this super little package with a nice little gear change though – the closest we come to banger here but still nothing to break sweat over mind – with layers of rolling bassline, percussion and ethereal synth pointing the way to the dance-floor.
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Move To The Front does wrap up this super little package with a nice little gear change though – the closest we come to banger here but still nothing to break sweat over mind – with layers of rolling bassline, percussion and ethereal synth pointing the way to the dance-floor.
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