The granddaddy of ghetto tech returns to his Dirty Knock imprint with three fresh Motor City bangers.
With all the elaborate tools and fancy techniques available these days it’s easy for producers to get lost in the details. But once upon a time things were much simpler, and the electronic pioneers had to think creatively in order to get good results from the 8-bit samplers and MIDI-less synths that were on offer. A witness to those early days, Godfather takes us back to basics here demonstrating just how much you can do with a kick, a sub, a clap and a hi-hat. The underpinnings of this release are essentially those four elements woven into raw techno grooves which you know are guaranteed to get a crowd moving. The icing on the cake is a combination of old-school synth stabs and looped male rap vocals clearly designed with the club in mind.
Definitely one for the DJ’s, the tracks are a little too bland and repetitive to warrant much home listening but in the hands of a skilled selector these babies will work wonders on the floor and I can see them getting incorporated nicely into any number of styles and scenes outside of the Detroit warehouses from which they were spawned.
This is Detroit is available on Dirty Knock.
