ANONSTOP / 40 THIEVES / BEZIER / THE BEAT BROKER

415-PR10

Public Release

PR10

ANONSTOP / 40 THIEVES / BEZIER / THE BEAT BROKER

415-PR10

Public Release

PR10

PR10
ARTIST
ANONSTOP / 40 THIEVES / BEZIER / THE BEAT BROKER
TITLE
415-PR10
LABEL
Public Release
CAT NO.
PR10
FORMAT
12"
RELEASE DATE
    30/09/2016
TERRITORY
WORLDWIDE
GENRE
Disco Indie Dance Nu Disco
FEATURING
40 Thieves Anonstop Bezier The Beat Broker
MISC.
USA IMPORT

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SALES NOTES

Seeing as Public Release is a San Francisco label and sister to Face, a long-running local party, you could say it was inevitable the label would put out a record that candidly celebrates its hometown’s talent, color, character. 415-PR10, whose name is an ode to S.F.’s first, emblematic area code, is exactly that: a frenetic survey of some of Northern California’s finest producers— and a blueprint of sorts for more similarly-minded and -themed EPs in the future.
The 12-inch gets warmed up with an uncharacteristically brief yet captivating nugget of West Coast-tinted Balearica by Anonstop, a mysterious entity whose debut release was a pair of edits on the cult imprint Blackdisco that came out five years ago. Then, 40 Thieves, a collective of some of the region’s most lauded and sought-after diggers, rev things up and settle into cruise control with Cage & Aviary’s dubby, drifting mix of “Lower Haighter.” It has a peculiar, crooked patience that sounds like an invitation to seek out all that goes bump in the night.
The strobes begin to flash on the flip with Bézier’s “Domination,” a swinging Italo disco riot that’s as sweaty and frisky as it is focused and no-nonsense. It’s a subtly twisted jam that you’ll swear played for hours when it sharply ends in a bass-and-hi-hat reprise, which is probably exactly what it was made to do; Bézier, a.k.a. Robert Yang, is one fourth of Honey Soundsystem, the San Francisco DJ crew that’s been throwing parties for over a decade. The EP calls it with the Beat Broker’s “Trade Secrets,” a glittery shuffler that almost serves as a medley of the three cuts it’s preceded by. A dollop of velvety kosmische, a cup of slow-mo disco, and a sprinkle of underspoken piano house, it’s a freeing way to wrap the four-tracker.

Published: 15th September 2016

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