Archive 2 vinyl

A little over a year since their debut on the label, veteran house producers Synchrojack are back on Vibes And Pepper with another four track EP directly from their archives.
The London pair have released only a select few cuts in their time but every one is an essential house jam as was proved by the great reception to their last EP on this esteemed French label. This time out they offer up four more cuts of lush house that ranges from musical to loopy to deep and back again.
Up first, 'The Road' is a busy, quick bit of house with firm, well-programmed drums, squelchy and bendy synth lines and plenty of organic warmth, real instrumentation and modern funk. 'Feelin Fine' (remix) is a loopy bit of filter house with a catchy vocal snippet, dirty great bass guitar riff and plenty of old school atmospherics all imbued within the fantastic groove. Authentically old sounding it puts so much modern music to shame.
'Into Powder' is a more stripped back bit of driving house that sounds like Norm Talley and Delano Smith locked in a jam session. It's dubby, rolling and grainy and you never want the well-constructed groove to stop. Last but not least, 'Some Scene Or Other' is a rattling, woody house groove with loopy percussive tumbles, wobbling, melted synth lines and crisp hi hats all jostling around each other in lively, life-like fashion.

Patrick Luca (Island Issues), Red Rack'em/Hot Coins, Jacques Renault, DNArt (Shift Ltd), DJ Nav, Evan Michael, Moustache Love, New Jack City, Steve Froggatt (Pocket Money), Cape Cod, Brian Harden, Pete Woosh (DiY/Spirit Wrestlers)