- London party House Of Trax has, in recent years, been responsible for uniting all manner of rowdy party music under one roof. Its label arm, Trax Couture, pursues a similar goal. The first two releases, from co-founder Rushmore, riffed on ballroom, footwork, grime and more, and earned attention from MikeQ and Bok Bok in the process. On the surface, new signing Posh God pulls a similar trick. But a glance at the Miami producer's Bandcamp—a dump for dozens of pay-what-you-like albums, spanning from hip-hop mixtapes to lo-fi sample collage—suggests other affiliations. There's something of vaporwave in the producer's omnivorous cultural appetite and punk-ish approach to presentation (though, going by his Bandcamp tags, Poshgod prefers the rather less wholesome "cumwave").
All of which means that HOT 003, while working with a number of familiar club styles, does so in a way that de-emphasises floor functionality in favour of sheer sonic oddness. Often this works in Poshgod's favour. "Juicy Chocolate" sounds like a squalid take on the North of England's jackin' style; the warping bassline and functional electro-house chug are familiar, but they're greyed out and ugly, as if they've been Xeroxed a few times. "Nubian 124," meanwhile, might be one of Soundstream's disco-house bangers gone terribly wrong. "Akira Drift" is even stranger, a swaggering techno number so overdriven the bass registers as great farts of distortion. When Poshgod does play things straighter—the queasy ghetto-house of "Dancin' 'N' Shit" and "Tittytron"'s utilitarian Miami bass—it almost feels like a letdown.
TracklistA1 Juicy Chocolate
A2 Akira Drift
A3 Nubian 124
B1 Dancin n shit
B2 Tittytron