ARTIST DUM
TITLE About Women EP
LABEL AMAM Extra
CATALOG NO. amamextra010
FORMAT wav / mp3
DISTRIBUTION Beatport.com
RELEASE DATE 12 September 2011
CONTACT info@am-am.org
X1. About Women
X2. About Women (FX-appella)
X3. Vacuum Voices
Pre-listening: http://soundcloud.com/amam-2/sets/amame ... out-women/
About one year ago, AMAM leader Alessio Mereu and his comrade Andrea Ferlin released their first album as DUM, which DJ Mag rated 7.5/10 and praised for its “woozy, mysterious melodies, subdued house rhythms
and deep, hypnotic shuffles”. Since then, these guys have been busy on their own – Mereu notably released his debut solo album Tripolarity this summer and Ferlin has been keeping active with his Sleep is Commercial team – but DUM as an entity has been silent. Until now – they’re back, and the bass is loud! “About Women” is structured around a classic AMAMstyle house groove, but with a noticeably expanded palette of percussive sounds: the straight 4/4 beat punctuated by accents from a jazz drummer bouncing on a trampoline, while a blues guitarist gets stuck in a time loop. The track’s real character, though, comes courtesy of a raspy-voiced man reciting lines from a Yeats poem. A literary lesson on the dancefloor? Something like that – but the voice is butchered, warped, and deflated to the point where the words start losing their meaning and are more a sonic element than a storyline. For the more adventurous DJ/producers out there, the track is also offered in the “FX-appella” version, keeping just the voice and effects to be laid upon a new beat. Going for a more subdued approach, the EP closes with “Vacuum Voices”, a track with film noir melodic tendencies and percussion that mimics the buzz and flutters of nocturnal insects – this one is for darker moments but retaining the sly seductive quality that these two Italian producers have mastered.
Played and supported by Shlomi Aber,Danny Tenaglia,Slam,Butch, Rodriguez Jr, Carlo Lio, Fabrizio Maurizi, Mikael Stavöstrand, Gel Abril, Arnaud Le Texier, Martin Eyerer, Hugo, Mihai Popoviciu, Salvatore Freda, Channel X, Daniel Sanchez, Todd Bodine, Ambivalent, Anthony Collins, AFFKT and many more..