Kassian – 8th Movement EP

ARTIST Kassian
RELEASE TITLE 8th Movement EP
LABEL Heist Recordings
CATALOG HEIST047
GENRE Deep House
AUDIO FORMAT AIFF Lossless 1411kbps / MP3 320kbps CBR
RELEASE DATE 2020-07-10
MP3 NiTROFLARE / ALFAFILE
AIFF NiTROFLARE / ALFAFILE

1. Kassian – 8th Movement (Original Mix) 07:39 126bpm Amin
2. Kassian – Apollo feat. Laroye (Leo Pol Remix) 07:25 126bpm Amin
3. Kassian – Apollo feat. Laroye (Original Mix) 06:57 126bpm Bmin
4. Kassian – Brass Hammer (Original Mix) 06:48 125bpm Amin

REVIEW
When they first appeared on Heist Recordings in 2018, Kassian were considered raw but promising talents. Since then, the Hackney-based duo has gone on to release a string of fine EPs for the likes of Groovence and Phonica White. There’s plenty to set the pulse racing on their return to Detroit Swindle’s label too, starting with the ‘walking’ disco bass, sparkling synth sounds, tactile chords and bustling grooves of lead cut “Apollo” – a track that’s later given a classic-sounding deep house makeover by Leo Pol (check the jazzy solos and Afro-tinged beats). Elsewhere, “8th Movement” is a bounding chunk of U.S style deep house that sounds like it could have been recorded sometime in the late ’90s, while closing cut “Brass Hammer” is a slightly more muscular chunk of peak-time deep house.