Steve Bug - The Other Day flac mp3 download

15 years on..Electric Blue is a drug if the music could F*** then this track does it! So I, rhythm divine outstanding too..

_The Other Day_ shows Steve Bug moving away from the deep house of his earlier productions and more towards the minimal techno that mark his DJ sets. “Loverboy” skates by on the beat and a slow build that leads into the vocal sample, while “White Times” and “The Spray” have electro feels to get your body popping. “At the Front” keeps things spare, but groovy, and “Electric Blue” turns up the feedback. Both “Rhythm Divine” and “Switch” maintain chunky beats, but it’s the crisp production of “So I” that grabs at your ears. Same goes for the long, luscious tones that enter “Soulin’ Deep” halfway through. “Cheesy Krust” takes the album out with a nice slice of downtempo. Nice, for sure.

Here we have Steve Bug's debut full length release on his new label, Poker Flat Recordings. "The Other Day" offers up a good mix of demented house sounds and some sexed up minimal techno cuts. The classic to some, "Loverboy" starts out the album with a pre-cursor to the poker flat recipe of sound that would be copied by many of the artists that followed on the label in the coming years. "Loverboy" which is no breakthrough of any sorts offers the charm in emotion that would make the label stand out against the crowd for the glory days of Poker Flat (1999-2003) when house was the vision and not the catch wave of minimal. Skip the average and go straight for "White Times" a brilliant tech house dancefloor cut and you begin to see Steve Bug's vision for new millenium house sounds on his label. The single "At The Front" follows with more deeper grooves (check the remixes). The demented melodies, bassline grooves, catchy percussion would make any late night dancefloor happy. My most favorite dance cut on here is "Rhythm Divine", it's a mover for sure. Steve also tries his hand at downtempo house jams too with "Switch" and a little of new-electro sounds of "The Spray" all with decent success. Still, Steve's sounds feel most at home in his house vein when the cd gets back track with the dancefloor sound of "So I". A solid debut for the new label.

Part house, part techno, part electro, and all minimal, German producer Steve Bug might just be the heir apparent to minimal techno forerunner Richie Hawtin. But while Hawtin made his name by stripping down the acid house sound of the early '90s, Bug brings together a broader range of influences before paring the elements down to arrangements so full of space you could drive a bus through them. Take the opener, "Loverboy," as a prime example. A single pulsing synth note and kick drum gradually build into a three-note sequence with a kick-snare rhythm. By the time the quarter-note bass comes in, you're swaying to the beat, but you don't even notice until it drops back down and you stop. The tease is paid off by a single piano note that within this context might as well be the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Once you understand why this sort of skeletal music works, it is easy to find the groove within the new wave strut of "White Times" or the Ectomorph-inspired electro of "The Spray." The method might not work quite as well with the plodding hip-hop beats found on "The Truth" and "The Switch," but it only takes one measure of the "Funkytown"-inspired cowbell on "Electric Blue" to make you realize that despite the over-the-top orchestration of the Lipps Inc. original, it was that simple little bell that had you dancing all along.

listened to this "the other day" and realized how wonderful and brillinant this album is. steve bug is one of my favorites without a doubt. hes amazing! at the front and rhythm divine are brilliant pieces.