- Solid Groove, aka Switch, releases his first mix album, and the clue is in the name – these house beats are no nonsense and straight down to business.
Opening with his own cracking remix of Blaze’s ‘Do You Remember House?’, he hits a funky groove early on with the bassline on Induceve’s ‘Get Some Groove’. As Switch, ‘Get On Downz’ is a deep, deep vibe-led track that’s been ripping up Faith dancefloors. Then Nathan Drew Larsen twists the electro blade ‘just a little more’ in a minimal track.
There’s a pause for breath with the stop-start ‘Pain’ from Stefan Goldmann, the riff complemented by Kristiina Tuomi’s vocal. This leads into the Blaze classic ‘My Beat’, give yet another remix by Solid Groove – surely one of the most frequently remixed tracks of recent years.
A Balearic flavour is noticeable throughout Induceve’s second track, ‘Issamippi’, before some twisted, fragmented vocal tracks bring the mix to a close, a nice keyboard loop dominating the final Solid Groover, ‘Last Orders’.
A decent debut, well mixed and with no pretensions – perhaps just lacking that extra ‘wow’ factor to propel it into the big league, but solid nonetheless.