Fri, 30 Jul 2010  /  Post a comment
Fresh meat Records, Label write up:

Densmore & Cort’s “Washington Park” EP is easily the most gorgeously deep and atmospheric music Fresh Meat has released this year. The Troy, New York duo’s slow thick house productions seep lush pleasures, poetics and seduction.

In the spirit of Jackie’s “Sun, Sun, Sun” the project opens with “Let’s Please This Sun”, a beautiful tribute to the central body of our solar system. Pads, evocative strings, resonate drones, and other synths exalt the light and heat which emanate from this soft elegant track.

“(re)”, a speculative slow groove, is propelled by emotional outbursts, lovely keys, and Densmore & Cort’s provocative drum programming. The drums and key stabs heat up through the last half of the track transforming the music’s abstract structure into a subtle dance floor grinder.

“Cream” with its vibraphones and ultra sweet vibe was the original Densmore & Cort track picked up by Fresh Meat and was released on the mix album and compilation When Bad People Cook Good Food Volume 2 earlier this year. As a Beatport exclusive, we present Densmore’s (George Washburn’s) slightly thickened-up retouch. With new voices and programming, the remix is more percussive and dance floor but retains all the music and atmosphere of the original.

The sun is pleased.

Fri, 09 Jul 2010  /  Post a comment
At first I had delusions that this mix would be a snap. Come to find out, it was not. This was completely complied from tracks I had previously owed or found on various blogs throughout the internet. The reason I embraced all digital DJing after 8 years of solely using vinyl was for this reason alone, access to music I’d otherwise never own, hear or share with other music lovers on the dance floor. Does this mix contribute to disposable music culture that’s cannibalized the music industries the past 10 years? I say not. Not only does it share music with people and for that matter myself, that would otherwise never get to experience it but also opened my eyes to the talent and amazing abilities of producers during this era.
In the end I found a connection to these producers. Did they write these tracks for the money? No way, disco demolition had already come and kicked the feet out from under the dance music community. The dance music scene was well on its way to the underground. Sales weren’t there. If you didn’t have a residency at some major club venue which was few a far between you could forget about living from DJ fees.
Mazi writes an article for Beatportal called House music circles. I find this title to be most appropriate for my connections to the producers in this mix. Music comes around in circles. I love the sounds, textures, arrangements and tempo of the tracks in this mix. I relate to them and attempt to emulate them in many ways even now in 2010.
Do I make a living from producing? No. Do I make a living from DJing? No. Do I care in the tiniest bit that my music is accepted as mainstream? No. Just like the producers in this mix, I do it to for the love and all that encompasses plain and simple.
I buy my music. But for these mix I embrace what’s best about music sharing in 2010. Access to the obscure and to share what would otherwise go unheard.