NYC and Chicago based house/techno heroes Justin Cudmore and Hiroko Yamamura team up for a special release on HE.SHE.THEY. that includes a remix from Heartthrob. All three artists are making their debut on the gender-inclusive UK label, providing lovely acid lines and highly danceable grooves throughout.
The title track “Midwest Panic” encapsulates a healthy marriage of the two first-time collaborators’ styles. Punchy drum beats sway the energy back and forth behind the revolving acid line that gives its pulse to the release opener. Mixed and arranged with care by the dj/producer vets, the track waltzes through its duration with an effortlessly danceable and entrancing flow.
“I’m Not A Trip, I’m A Journey” is their second offering, hosting limitless creativity in the genre-bending seven minutes. Appropriately titled, the evolving acid track moves back and forth from breakbeat to four-on-the-floor, tripping on warped synth and percussion lines along the way while impressively staying extremely danceable throughout the changeups.
Heartthrobs’ remix of “Midwest Panic” gives a deeper envisioning with a rolling bassline and eerie undertones for a first-class effort that screams midwest techno. A tight and pounding kick grounds you while off-kilter and twisted percussive rhythms run wild, building to a climactic ending. Special care is noticeably given attention to evolve each sound making the stellar remix organically flow from start to finish.
Exclusive to Beatport, Cudmore and Yamamura ditch the bubbly acid patterns for other tasty synth substitutions in their “Please No Acid Dub” of Midwest Panic, for those that have just had enough 303 lately. (We all have our moments of unclarity at times)
“Midwest Panic EP” is available on most streaming and digital distribution platforms.
-Kai Loo
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