DJOKO – Hooked

ARTIST DJOKO
RELEASE TITLE Hooked
LABEL Shall Not Fade
CATALOG SNF042
GENRE Deep House
AUDIO FORMAT AIFF Lossless 1411kbps / MP3 320kbps CBR
RELEASE DATE 2020-05-29

https://www.beatport.com/release/hooked/2936460
4 TRACKS:

1. DJOKO – Hooked on You (Original Mix) 06:23 131bpm G#min
2. DJOKO – Facettes (Original Mix) 05:28 125bpm A#min
3. DJOKO – Bad to the Bone (Original Mix) 05:57 127bpm A#min
4. DJOKO – Jode Lade (Original Mix) 06:34 132bpm A#min

Shall Not Fade welcomes Cologne’s ​DJOKO to the family with 5 slices of scorching feel-good house. Over a decade spent honing his craft, DJOKO has steadily gained recognition for his innate ability to craft a groove. Slick house infused with 2-step, garage and breakbeat energy – this one has us longing for the dance.

Kickin’ off with infectious, 2-step energy ‘Hooked On You’ is a poppin’ jam for hazy days and sunkissed dancefloors. Next up ‘Facettes’ takes retro elements and gives them new life in this glorious funk-filled, swinging cut. Taking it up a notch on, ‘Bad To The Bone’ is a chunky house pumper with all the right ingredients – stripped back vocals, swirly synths, piano stabs – dancing over a killer groove. Techy B2 ‘Jode Lade’ nod to DJOKO’s musical upbringing. Bouncy and minimal, his most stripped back offering on the EP but still prime dancefloor heat.

REVIEW
If trad-style deep house and US garage are what floats your boat then you need to pick up this EP from Djoko immediately, because lead track ‘Hooked On You’ is the absolute BOMB and, marrying New Jersey keys and male soul vox to an uptempo driving rhythm, is surely destined to be huge on soulful floors this summer. Elsewhere on the EP, there are more garage-y overtones on ‘Facettes’ while ‘Bad To The Bone’ and ‘Jode Lade’ operate in more straight-up deep house territory (but still in classic US-style mode), and the quality standard is impeccable throughout. Superb stuff.

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