Beautiful Swimmers (Future Times, Washington DC) Max D & Ari G bringing some local love to this long over due release. It's been 6 years since their last mastermix for PPU with Message in the Music, now rearing his head from hibernation the good vibes grizzly is back this time with a slight go-go slant, bent on staying awake all winter, shades down.
"Sleepyhead" is surprisingly introverted for the Swimmers. Mainly this is due to the twinkly Rhodes loop at its core, a thing so light and hesitant that it's barely there—as if somebody let their fingers fall pensively on the keys while their mind wandered elsewhere. Draped over a sleek electro chassis, and speckled with delay and micro-fragments of sampled voice, the effect is subtle but compelling, a moment of introspection in the midst of the dance. "Dunk" is a return to more familiar ground—not least because its rolling groove, though ticking along at a sluggish 90-odd BPM, still feels light-footed and infectious in the extreme. A Sleepyhead B Dunk
