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Aurora Halal - Passageway EP

    • Label /
      Mutual Dreaming Recordings
      MD001
    • Released /
      March 2014
    • Style /
      Techno, House
    • Comments /
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    • Rating /
      3.5/5
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    Aurora Halal - Passageway EP Aurora Halal - Passageway EP
    Aurora Halal - Passageway EP Aurora Halal's first release on Mutual Dreaming, the label named after her series of parties in New York, is also her first EP. Listening to its four Detroit-influenced tracks, you hope it's the first of many. Take the deeply funky opener "Hazy G," a track that sounds too refined to belong to a debut. Halal's vocal samples and countermelodies are as subtle as the bass and kicks are heavy hitting. "Disassociate" is relatively sparse, with all its elements—an urgent snare pattern, a lighter kick, a spiralling synth melody—thrown into sharp relief. It's spacious and surreal, its layers interacting to form a whole greater than the sum of its parts.

    "Overpass," with its three-note synth pad accompanied by little gurgles, is a subtle, swinging cut. Were the mix-down a little different, with crisper snares and heavier kicks, it could be spellbinding, but as it stands it feels a little insubstantial compared to the deeper tracks. Although none of the original's dreaminess is sacrificed, Terrence Dixon's "Detroit Mix" has a good deal more heft, with eye-watering hi-hats, an earworming bassline and wafting snatches of countermelody.
    • Published /
      Fri / 25 Apr 2014
    • Words /
      Maya Kalev
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    • Tracklist /
      A1 Hazy G
      A2 Overpass
      B1 Siren (Reprise)
      B2 Disassociate
      B3 Overpass (Terrence Dixon Detroit Mix)
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