First Floor – Unrequited Feelings EP

ARTIST First Floor
RELEASE TITLE Unrequited Feelings EP
LABEL Quintessentials
CATALOG QUINTESSENTIALS71
GENRE Deep House
AUDIO FORMAT MP3 320kbps CBR
RELEASE DATE 2020-07-03
MP3 NiTROFLARE / ALFAFILE

1. First Floor – Rhodes (Original Mix) 05:34 122bpm Amin
2. First Floor – Rhodes (Simon Hinter Remix) 05:31 122bpm Amin
3. First Floor – Unrequited Feelings (Kez YM Remix) 06:15 124bpm Dmin
4. First Floor – Unrequited Feelings (Original Mix) 04:30 120bpm Emaj

First Floor is a japanese music lover and producer who got noticed by his release on swedish elite label Local Talk in 2018. For his second vinyl release, he digging deep again and shows some well crafted House tunes with some dope beats and great melodies. Topping things off there are 2 remixes: fellow japanese wizard Kez YM (Faces Recods, City Fly, 4Lux) adds some club flavour while new hot shot Simon Hinter (Freerange) stays deep and funky. Some hot tunes for a hot summer!
REVIEW
There was a fair amount of underground heat around Hitoshi Marakami’s debut single as First Floor on Local Talk, an inspired, low-slung and deliciously dubby 2018 re-make of Serious Intention’s proto-house classic “You Don’t Know”. This delayed follow-up is equally as impressive. In its original form, “Unrequited Feelings” is a pleasingly jazzy chunk of humid, saucer-eyed deep house rich in tribal style drum hits, jazz-funk bass, fluid piano lines and ethereal chords, while “Rhodes” is a perfectly pitched chunk of hazy deep house warmth smothered in tasty electric piano. Fellow Japanese producer Kez YM provides the standout remix, reimagining “Unrequited Feelings” as a pleasingly glassy-eyed slab of piano-house soulfulness, while Simon Hinter adds a little swing and tons of squelchy synth bass on an ear-pleasing revision of “Rhodes”.