- Alongside fellow Welshman The Organ Grinder, Chesus has become a bellwether for Gerd's 4lux, rolling classic house themes in the dirt before serving them up. Two of Elevation's four tracks are sample-heavy and discofied, the kind of thing you'd maybe hear at peak-time in The Box at Ministry Of Sound, while the others are snarling 4 AM house. "Jump" is typical of the former, riding on a set of granite-heavy kicks before a funk slap bass and electric piano sparks the glitterball into life. The string-sampling "Intergalactic Jam" is cut from the same cloth, a finger-clicking high tempo number that treads the same sort of ground that Detroit Swindle have been blazing a trail across in recent times.
The yang to these tracks' yen are the oppressive "Bootsy's Nightmare," where submarine pulses and a fast tempo combine to build a stifling atmosphere, and the EP's best moment, its title cut. This is the most vicious, stripped-back thing here—ever more brutal kick drums merge with a tip-tap death rattle and spiky synths. Chesus, it seems, is at his best when he's playing nasty.
Lista de sequência de músicasA1 Jump!
A2 Elevation
B1 Intergalactic Jam
B2 Bootsy's Nightmare