The Venice Calypso project - the work of Poland-born, London-dwelling producer Sebastian Bartz - is club music at its most potent. Powerful, energetic and just brash enough to ensure it grabs your attention, his music wriggles through the speakers with enough impact and groove to distract you from the inherent oddity of its combating sonics, idiosyncratic melodies and skittering, overloaded rhythms in a way reminiscent of the halcyon days of instrumental grime. Freeing himself from the rhythmic and melodic templates traditionally dictated by genre in the same way that grime's innovators did, his heavy tribal drum patterns and wired synth hooks immediately stand out with his inimitable sonic stamp.
