- For most of this year, Berlin's Dennis Kuan, AKA DJ Kaos, has laid low as a producer, which is a little disappointing given his pair of '09 stunners: "Love the Nite Away," on Rong/DFA, whose fabulous Tiedye yacht-rock remix ruled that summer, and "Kosmischer Ruckenwind," on Clone Loft Supreme Series, a 12-minute krautrock odyssey from late December. Those tracks are pretty unalike, and so again is "Horny Morning Loop," the first release on Kaos's new label, Jolly Jams. Each side features a remix by a different artist, and they ease the imprint in nicely together.
TVS & Aera call their version of the track the "Monday Morning Acid Dub," and in their hands "acid" means "1989" rather than "303." A bare, rubber-bandy bassline and mildly reverberant 808 kick, not to mention tense Rhodes strings and 8-bit handclaps, are the key ingredients, but the middle makes it especially clear, by bringing in some dawn-over-the-motorway synth swells. They blend in with everything else in no time. On the B, Dr. Dunks' "Kaotic Mix" has its own kind of chemistry: it's a steady-rolling percussion jam, the focus on a stripped down live drum kit and rolling congas, while a dubbed-to-fuck vocal line sways around the stereo field. It's space disco with little of the cliche that currently swamps the very idea of "space disco"—and then it gradually turns epic itself, a neat reversal it pulls off effortlessly.
Tracklist A1 Horny Morning Loop (Till Von Sein & Aera's Monday Morning Acid Dub
B1 Horny Morning Loop (Drdunkskaotic Mix)