Levon Vincent – Man Or Mistress

A Man Or Mistress
B1 Making Headway
B2 No Regrets

The return of Levon Vincent!!! It's over 18 months since he dropped the masterful 'Double Jointed Sex Freak', and aside from a couple of low key remixes on Moodmusic and UQ we've been left starving for new material. As expected, his production is super right and tight, built for soundsystems capable of handling his signature bass weight and those massive kicks. Spanning the A-side 'Man Or Mistress' haughtily minces up to a teasing square bass before stealthily unleashing an almighty synthline for macho movers and the ambiguous Adonis inside you. By the track's end it's pure tops-off time. Flip him over and 'Making Headway' serves a non-too-subtle arrangement of panting, barking noises over thrusting subs with that wide-style New York spaciousness, and finally 'No Regrets' deploys sweetly forlorn vocal licks on a more warped kicker for the midday dancing crew. Right on - KILLER!!!...www.boomkat.com

Levon Vincent - The Medium Is The Message

A1 The Medium Is The Message
B1 A Melody For Everyone
B2 I Owe You Everything

Levon Vincent returns with another absolutely deadly blend of rugged House structures and classic dub washes for this latest twelve on his own Novel Sound imprint. There really is very little House music of this calibre around at the moment, the title track here somehow managing to evoke the spirit of Mike Huckaby, Kassem Mosse and Marcel Dettmann without really sounding like any of them, weaving tight percussive flourishes in and out of the mix alongside organic noises that imbue proceedings with a heady, narcotic character. Over on the flipside, "A Melody for Everyone" opens up the House templates for a more shimmering session along the lines of classic KDJ meets Omar S, with a colossal synth hook turning the heat up before closing track "I Owe You Everything" makes use of densely squashed toms and a vocoded vocal for a closer that takes in a vast array of classic House signatures without really sounding like anything you'll have heard before. Needless to say, massive twelve.