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Vinalog – Perspectives

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Before it became de rigueur for everyone to make their house jams “gritty” and “raw” or whatever those reason pre-sets are that so many use as in their badly mastered, leaden productions the Live Jams / Relative crew were quietly releasing some rough-edged but – importantly – funky 12s beginning around 2009 or so. EMG and John Swing, here together as Vinalog, are still doing it and on “Perspectives” doing it very well. There is already a released version of the best cut on this, Disco, that I didn’t have but this also comes alongside the grinding funk of Addiction, with both tracks using some effective samples repetitively, backed with their typical on-the-brink drums and sinewy acid. You don’t ever need to hear a full set of music like this, but when its done properly you are reminded why it became such a “thing”.

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