- After a pair of EPs on Washington, D.C.'s Future Times label, Protect-U (Aaron Leitko and Ft co-founder Mike Petillo) hop the Atlantic for a spot on Piers Harrison and Chris Galloway's Vibrations imprint. If you've heard their previous records, you'll know what they're up to here: graceful, resolutely analog house and techno in the vein of Legowelt or Omar-S or the L.I.E.S. label, by turns prickly, bleepy and straight-up dreamy.
"Wild Drift" begins with a bouncy 808 pattern and pert arpeggios before blowing wide open beneath cascading fifths; drums shudder, synths swirl. "Bright After Dark" is a lo-fi, slo-mo drum track that eventually sprouts an eerie halo of shimmering, dissonant pads; similarly paced, "Ultra (Basic Mix)" brings together chiming chords and dubby congas. They're all great, but none of them come close to the understated beauty of "Slow Ultra," a sweet, plucky little deep house lullaby that carries the faintest echo of LCD Soundsystem's "Someone Great."
Lista de sequência de músicasA1 Wild Drift
A2 Ultra (Basic Mix)
B1 Slow Ultra
B2 Bright After Dark