Another year, another month, another change of seasons, and we're a
little belatedly leaping through the fires of Bealtaine with four absolute bangers from none other than the man who previously turned in Ubuntu b/w Djembe, which I'll have you know has been one of the best performing singles on our wee little Dublin label to date. Yes, that's right, you've guessed it, Cork's very own prodigal son Tone Walsh is back with a bang on InHabit, and this four track EP is sure to make quite the splash indeed.
Kicking off proceedings with a leisurely 140bpm, “Since Day One” is every bit as good as you'd expect, with driving throbby subs, grizzly atmospheres like a diesel truck with a smoker's cough, and enough topline percussive intricacy to keep the heads who pay close attention
engaged from start to finish. “Our Memories” kicks up the pace and cleans up the soundscape with a delicate snappy step that craftily drops into a subtle, deep, vocal driven number with more twists and turns than a West Cork backroad and a momentum as catchy as it is unstoppable. “About Time” is an eerier affair, kicking in with moody minor key menace and grabbing the attention with a pulsing harmonic laden bassline artfully draped in homeopathic doses of percussion – play this on a deeper floor and watch the energy levels rise all through the incredible final stretch as it rolls out and the drums and bass riffs develop into something so subtle and so infectious that you're frankly not going to believe this guy isn't a household name yet. Doubt me on that? Do you? We've still got the title track to get through pal so buckle up – this one's a focused, precision-tooled, controlled demolition stepper with a relentless nagging groove punctuated by ghoulishly expressive snarls and warbles that accentuate the Stanley-knife sorcery going on in the break. A simple formula elevated with elegance, taste, restraint, and rare craftsmanship, and how many other tunes can you REALLY say that about these days?
Anyway look it, I don't want to big this up too much before you check
the tunes but the last time a small ramshackle Irish operation had
something this explosive up its sleeves it was, well, maybe let's not
go there. Crafted within an inch of its life in Tone's studio, polished up and sanded off (or whatever mastering engineers do) to the usual impeccable standards of Heights' mastering suite. Please play these everywhere you go and please let us know how you get on with them.
This album by the Irish producer is filled with hi-tempo beats infused with drum & bass, jungle, and deep house sounds. Bandcamp New & Notable Jun 2, 2023