Catalog: NSM048
Artist: Tamara Montenegro
Genres: Techno, MInimal, Tech-house
Format: WAV, MP3
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Tamara Montenegro – Amicizia
Tamara Montenegro releases her second track for NOSI Music and places herself firmly in the new level of producers bridging the gap between solid techno stylings and a groove state of mind.
“Amicizia” manages to bridge just about every category of modern dance music production together; from electro Berlin to super psychedelic touches; making it gel into a cohesive stunner. Bubbled synths laugh around 'satisfyingly' whispered vocals. Acid guitar riffs through a galloping dance line. Cavernous and and exploratory Amicizia is a late night monster. Huge depth of sound is the catch word and a sophisticated mood is the buzz. Tour the cave.
Constar (NYC mainstay Techno mistress Connie) plays through with an intricately building remix that starts with a soft batting back and forth of beats until you discover that a game is being played on you. Dark undertones echo through the background until your senses are stolen by a classically baroque piano line. The whole is syncopated off each measured signal. Brilliant, glinting and underhanded . . . you stay and play.
Danielle Nicole (Frequenza, Chameleon Black) launches the track into high orbit with an outer space redo. Big, billowing bass drops somehow soften and couch her alien details. Pressure edges and washes slightly bend through a field of intricate clicks and crunches. The open spaces are only charted when the bass returns, creating a sort of backward break. Innovative, deep and delicious.
Pat King (Fade Records, Nightchild) gives us a steady groove track that traces the line of a late night highway flight. A low level bass line keeps rhythm while tubular bamboo pieces fall off the back of the truck. The vocal whisper from the original is placed tight by your ear. The tension is minimal but constant. A break two thirds of the way in is just the opening of the window for wind and breath. This is a dark and gliding slide.
Honduran Rafa Verdial (Sunjam) amps the track up into a more house minded jump up. Nothing is steady with a woozy echo chord worming its way around percolating beats. The whole track is like a bonfire of licking flames teasing and testing the air until the 4 minute mark when it all falls into place. You drank the Kool-Aid. “And you are just so satisfied”.
Puerto Rican born New York living Auricula (Third Ear Syndrome, Bacteria Records) jack the sh*t out of the works, making this a full floor main room stomper. A dark taunting bass line amps up with bamboo details and sirens screaming in the background. Intensely paranoid the track ramps out into massive onslaught of room filling sound. The break is a car crash. Ambulances have arrived. There are casualties. The return is dangerously close to hell on earth. Death defyingly, you survive, dancing through the storm of sonic collision . . . is your fate.
