Time Cow & Ossia take 2 tracks from Jabu’s 2020 album ‘Sweet Company’ into unfamiliar (and dance floor friendly) territory.
Side A sees ‘Us Alone’ gets transformed by Time Cow from slo-mo tearjerker into syrupy disco wrecker,
managing to somehow touch on reference points everywhere from east LA lowrider anthems through 00s garage and all propelled fwd by an eyeball shaking low end pressure.
On the flip Ossia takes snatches of the original ‘Slow Down’ and flashes them in around a 4/4 and a synth melody, fragments of Daniela’s vocal floating like a half remembered conversation.
Later Rakhi’s strings come in but in a more unsettling way than the original, eventually dissolving to a kind of Majora’s Mask (in dub) conclusion.
All terrain / all weathers - club / bbq / afterparty / late night introspection sessions
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released March 1, 2022
Vocals on Us Alone by Alex Rendall & Jasmine Butt
Vocals on Slow Down by Daniela Dyson & Alex Rendall
Strings on Slow Down by Rakhi Singh & Sebastian Gainsborough
supported by 34 fans who also own “Time Cow / Ossia remixes”
All the tracks are great but Stepper is the standout for me! pounding syncopated kicks, rolling handdrums and playful sample work, dancefloor destroyer. Jack G.
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