Around these parts, any mention of Surkin immediately brings to mind a certain sound: filtered disco-house, drenched in old school 90′s flavourings. A style afloat with elated melodies, soaring piano chords and retro vocals, often punctuated by ravey ghetto bass. But I remember Surkin bursting onto the dirty electro scene back in 2006 (at the peak of the maximal, noisy electro explosion) with an altogether different sound – glitchy-beyond-belief and nastier, boisterous beats. At the time, Surkin’s remixes could be more alikened to the eletro-tech thumpers of Boy Noize, and was often lumped with the Ed Banger crew. After his remixes of Boys Noize and Teki Latex, Surkin steered his sound towards his more distincitve, now-renowned brand of 90′s influenced house, but retained his trademark glitched, stuttery momentum.
While on the topic of upbeat house, you may remember Barcelona’s Sidechains, who featured on YCCMPelski last year (click here), with his funky vein of melodic, synth-led house – he’s another producer gleefully reviving the early house sound. Sidechains can well-and-truly wield those diva-house-vocal samples and bouncy chords like the old skoolers. Delicious:
