Distant Hawaii Electronic & Dance 12 Artikel

Having been circulating on the net for a fair while now, 'Talk To Me You'll Understand' finally arrives with a fresh mastering, but still thudding along with those scuffed Reebok drums and soaked into fuzzy, stomach-squeezing low-pass filter. All soft chords, soothing vocals, deep-sea bass and skittering hats.

Distant Hawaii continues to aurally thaw the oncoming Pacific cold front with a quartet of foot-toasting, skin toning summer house shufflers courtesy of Hardmatter label-head and London resident JVXTA. Having honed his valve-warmed + dusty samplin' production chops with a self-released split on Hardmatter, a low-key cassette for Swamp Tapes and a more recent package of burners for the NYC-based imprint Homage. This time it's a step on Lobster sub Distant Hawaii with four soulful slices of summer house moods and grooves carefully crafted and chopped into a seasoned and well rounded whole.

Manchester's Ciggy De La Noche makes his debut on Lobster sublabel Distant Hawaii with a four-tracker of warm, sunlit bumpin' house groovers. Waterfalls of cascading synth strings and dreamy, tender instrumentation drift and dance alongside more steady, playful late-night grooves. An infectious offering of kaleidoscopic house patterns and summer vibes.

With time spent away developing his studio, methods of mixing, as well as acquiring a small stash of new hardware, the resulting EP - inspired by recent travels to South East Asia - effuses all these elements and passions together with that signature Raw M.T. knack for organic percussion, heavily washed synths and pulsating rhythms.

Hiding slightly out of plain sight, Australian producer Mood J has been secretly crafting lush house jams for the last half decade bubbling just under the visible surface. With the artist and Asquith having briefly touched base at the beginning of the label's journey, it took only a chance encounter in a Ballarat bungalow in 2016 to reignite the flames of the artist-label relationship. Jimmy surprisingly bumping into Jon (Mood J), as he was Daze's housemate in Aus, whilst the Lobster crew were on tour there.

Distant Hawaii punts the summer long into the Autumn grass with an uplifting, spirit-dancing, soul-sparkling EP from fast-rising newcomer DJ Different. Coasting off of the back of releases for 10 Pills Mate and Mood Of The Era, DJ Different grabs the bull by the horns for this one with some coarsely slabbed house samplin' rubbing up against scuffed drum work, luscious chords and steady swirling deepness.

DJ Heure returns to Distant Hawaii with an EP of sun soaked, juno-heavy and extra warm house jams; each one inspired by special nights out in his native Adelaide.

Garrett David returns to Distant Hawaii with ‘Ebb Vibe’ a five track EP of beach bronzed cinematic house, delivered in his trademark unhurried style. We kick off with the EP’s soaring, blissful and chirping title track, quickly setting the scene in an almost Lynchian manner. A smoke filled hotel lobby bustling with ghosts of the past and soundtracked by a wistful, swaying piano.

Hidden Spheres comes drifting off of the sunset coast with four soothing slices of winter sun from far away islands and mountainous journeys. Picking up where the first EP left off, By & Bye is a reprise from past days. Welcoming a new sun and embracing the slow rise of humans amidst the yellowing egg-like sun.

DJ Heure parachutes in from Adelaide with four ethereal slabs of beach-coasting Oberheimer jams that sparkle and shine and drift across the sunset sea. Late summer jams that coast along a sunset beach, radiating the last glint of the sun & twinkling with gorgeous, emotion-drenched synth work.

Brooding talent Prequel hops from one West Yorkshire-helmed label to another with a refined, organic EP for Lobster Theremin sub-label Distant Hawaii. Tender whispers of nostalgia and an enduring call of solace underpin opener 'The Song I Said I'd Make For You'. Dust-pattered EQ sweeps, twinkling semi-bells and washes of warm, incandescent synth. Buzzing low below the sofa; a hue from the matte surface of a fuzzy carpet.

After reviving his 16-bit soul with rampantly joyful and excessively hedonistic escapades in New York, the now newly-named SONIKKU (casting off the DJ moniker of old and focussing purely on his namesake) takes refuge in the legendary high altitude temple, rising from the forest through the clouds and to a monumental blue-hued floating structure. Sky Sanctuary.