Artist ...... : Mr. Statik
Title ....... : Even Giants Have A Soft Spot
Genre ....... : Techno
Label ....... : Bpitch Control
Catnr ....... : BPC235
Source ...... : WEB
Quality ..... : 320kbps avg / 44.1KHz / Joint Stereo
Duration .... : 00:28:10 (64.6MB)
Ripdate ..... : 10-06-2011
Store ....... : http://beaport.com
Tracklist ... :
1. Ganymedes 7:25
2. Bee Free 6:41
3. Imagine 6:39
4. Ganymedes (Kiki Raw Edit) 7:25
Release Notes :
Before the renaissance of vocals in club music starts to get out of hand, a few
blueprints are being drawn up: standards that the brilliance of future vocal
track producers can be measured against. The Greek producer Mr. Statik, has put
together three such tracks for his first BPitch Control release. Last year he
released the EP Lust But Not Leashed on Mos Ferry Productions, contributed a
fervent vocal house track to BPitch's Werkschau compilation and still found some
time to get deep in DJ sets at clubs around the world. But all in all the man
from Athens took things a little easier than in previous years, when he
travelled to South Africa with the Red Bull Music Academy, reaped international
acclaim for releases on labels such as Memo and Karloff, and established himself
on the global DJ circuit. So Mr. Statik has swapped his plane seat for the
comfort of his studio and produced new house and techno tracks that feature a
large measure of sex appeal. The release is comprised of three steamy works
under the title Even Giants Have A Soft Spot.
With the opener Ganymedes Mr. Statik adds an elegant footnote to techno history
by releasing the first dance music track which pays direct homage to a figure
from Greek mythology. Ganymede, son of the King of Troy, was considered the most
beautiful of mortals and was loved by Zeus.
Mr. Statik gives him a warm serenade with a subtle spring in the bassline,
jubilant hand claps, an uplifting melody line and a misty-eyed vocal from the
Telefon Tel Aviv singer Joshua Eustis.
This hypnotic torch song strikes a charming balance between techno and house and
seems to be made especially for all the seductive bodies of the night. With his
second track, Be Free,
Mr. Statik goes for house music outside of the clichΘ mould, once again with
irresistible vocals.
These come from the singer K.atou, originally from Corfu and now living in
Athens. Her voice hovers gracefully over a warm bass whilst a varied firework
display of hi-hats, percussion and
hand claps goes off in the background. With the third track Imagine he once
again dives deep into the intricate peak time arts and gives us a dose of cool
vocal tech-house. The track's dynamic bassline combined with a hi-hat loop
produces the track's direct force, whilst in the background the voice of
Amsterdam DJ, label boss, party organiser and producer Carlos Valdes croons with
an air of lazy romance. Another dose of techno hypnosis that renders drugs
unnecessary and spreads its enchantingly bleak neon soul with cool vocal
passages. Three emotional tracks which really make you want to get dressed up
each time you listen in order to properly revel in their sophistication. The
release also includes a remix of the track Ganymedes from Kiki. Also oriented
around the eponymous Trojan, it spreads the message of pure beauty through its
ambiguously poppy techno deepness