Vedagor - Untitled I

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  • Veda-who? Oh, just a house producer with a voluminous catalog and an increasingly varied array of aliases, who wants to keep his identity vague. Following releases from KiNK and Humandrone, his four-tracker confirms Croatia's Burek as a deep house label worth watching. Like KiNK's "Leko" and Humandrone's "Stay Raw With Us," Vedagor's "Untitled I" grabs you by the collar and doesn't let go. Its particulars are relatively simple: A repeated sequence of bright, ascending chords and a slinky, stripped-down house beat that makes the most of its white-hot hi-hats. Everything else is carefully controlled chaos, much in the hip-hop-inspired mold of DJ Koze and Pepe Bradock—noodly keyboard soloing, drums run amok, chopped-up grunts, dub delay. There's a lot going on, but it never feels overstuffed; the whole track feels like one long, extended climax. The EP's remaining three tracks are more restrained, cloaked in basso rumble, woozy vocal samples, and a glassy, spectral smear of keyboards. "Untitled II" features a gravelly meditation on the difference between house and techno—"Does it really matter what plays?"—over a chiming backdrop of pings, bells, piano and 303, managing to sound both murky and crystal-clear all at once, while "Untitled III" and "Untitled IV" tip into tripped-out, modal-jazz territory. They're unapologetically messy, and that's just the kind of dance floor they're meant for.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Untitled I A2 Untitled II B1 Untitled III B2 Untitled IV
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