PEPE レコード& CD

Review: U Know Me present a fresh, modern object of intrigue, with Balance Remixed, which takes Pepe's 2023 album of the same time and makes it over into another full-length vinyl only release, throwing back to the days of vinyl only DJ sets, which were necessitated by technological limitation alone. DJ BLIK, Envee, Molehead, Riffz, Tropiki, true.dat, and TVB top up Pepe's original house, funk and disco blend with a brasher bass bisque, mastered and masterminded by cyborgish music titan Eprom. Spanning ever bassy tempo-set from 87 bpm to 164, we've a thrilling range of momentums here.

Review: Coco Bryce's Myor does the damage once again with new artist Pepe. Not a lot of information on Pepe is out there yet but these timeless beats give you more than enough to go on for now: 'Angels' writhes and weaves in a stark percussive ocean of ice before building up into a huge emotional wave in a similar way to Sully when he's jangling his foxiest materials. 'Birdfeed' is a little more sprightly and sun-kissed. Dreamier pads, lighter percussion but still bites hard when it needs to. Le phew!

Review: 
Piotr Rajski is also known as Pepe and Escapism is his second album. As with the first, it's a hard to easily define and categorise album with multiple genres and in between sounds all poking through the beats. It was written during the peak months of pandemic and writing much became a form of escape for the artist. The record has a more vibrant, colour and vivid feel than the first, and has a dreamy vibe that sure is good at taking your mind away from the here and now with broken beat, hip hop, jazz, funk and more informing its grooves.