REVIEW: Dusky - Lost Highway / Three Colours / Someone Like You

1- Lost Highway

2 -Someone Like You

3 -Three Colours

4- Lost In You feat. Janai (Hugga Thugg Remix)

Since the release of their debut album "Stick By This", Dusky aka Alfie Granger-Howell and Nick Harriman have emerged as the bright hopes of the UK house scene. Jamie Jones opened his DC10 closing party set with their track "Tyto Alba", Pete Tong has been caning their album tracks, while eclectic tastemakers like Bestival's Rob Da Bank and Zane Lowe have also been giving them mainstream radio support.



Having already been played as an Essential New Tune contender on Pete Tong's Radio 1 show, "Lost Highway" is a deep house classic in the making from the duo. With a deep, driving groove, sublime subtle melodies and a soaring, string-laden breakdown that rides atop trademark cut-up vocal samples, "Lost Highway" recently featured on DJ Magazine's Best Of British cover mount CD and will also be showcased on the forthcoming "Anjunadeep:04" compilation.



Veering towards a more bass-driven deep house sound, "Three Colours" we aves another deeply layered journey from washing melodic touches, trademark soulful vocal samples and chimes.



On a package that is all about groove and musicality, "Someone Like You" is the perfect closer. Bringing down the tempo, this soulful slow-mo house jam is full of hypnotic depth and has echoes of Jamie Woon in its subtle male vocal.

Also included is Hugga Thugg's deep house rework of "Lost In You" - winner of the recent remix competition.

Dusky - Lost Highway / Three Colours / Someone Like You by Anjunadeep

Dimitri Kechagias review: The quality progressive imprint Anjunadeep of Above & Beyond introduced us in 2011 of a new really exciting project that caused waves of interest from many fans, social media and music critics. Dusky with their album Stick By This proved that when you are creative better not think about what style of music you are heading at when you produce an album. An example of Dusky's ability to melt together elements from various styles in order to bring out their own sound is their latest EP out now on Anjunadeep. Lets take a closer look to the tracks included while just outside thick snow is falling and making this quite an unforgettable experience: Lost Highway: Retro sounds that bring back a taste from Chicago house with tribalish grooves, jazzy influences, cinematic strings, vocal samples and driving late at night while is snowing atmosphere for sure. Someone Like You:  Deep tech house organic sounds with retro male vocal, organ sounds and erotic feeling with even the classic vinyl scratch sound in it. Three Colours: Playful Deep Progressive  house with positive colourful melodic elements, techy grooves, choped female and male  vocals  and early morning atmosphere. Lastly the package includes the winning remix of the remix competition for Lost In You feat. Janai by Hugga Thugg. This version is very close to Dusky's own  style as it goes for  deep dubby tech house adventure with less of the vocal and more of the great soundtrack that is playful, complex and  surprising too. This is a magical EP for sure, Love IT!

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