Patrick Conway

Hypersocial / Safety Test

ESP Institute

ESP054

Patrick Conway

Hypersocial / Safety Test

ESP Institute

ESP054

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ARTIST
Patrick Conway
TITLE
Hypersocial / Safety Test
LABEL
ESP Institute
CAT NO.
ESP054
FORMAT
12"
RELEASE DATE
  • 18/12/2020 [INITIAL RELEASE]
TERRITORY
Worldwide
GENRE
Deep House Experimental Techno
FEATURING
Patrick Conway

TRACK LISTING

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  1. A1. Hypersocial  ▾
  2. B1. Safety Test  ▾

SALES NOTES

Patrick Conway is made of snips and snails and puppy tails. This is his second offering for the ESP Institute. On side A, Hypersocial removes our minds from the daily online cesspool and pulls up emotions we haven’t felt for almost a year. We lost a Summer of dancing together en masse in clubs, fields, warehouses and pubs, but with this beautiful reminder of what true social synergy and collective ecstasy can physically feel like, the Bristolian by way of Berlin hits the nail right on the head (with a little help from his friends Quantum Thomas & Hoyahelper). Lush strings? Tick. Balmy chord progression? Tick. Ethereal vocal chops? Walloping bassline? Infectious rhythm? Goosebumps? Tears of joy? Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick! On the flip-side, Safety Test is surely the tougher counterpart, the warm fuzzies are traded for a ten ton bag of grit. Here, Patrick foreshadows a sonic approach we’ll hear lot more of with his debut album early next year; a combination of abrasive rhythms, processed scraps, a grab bag of stabbing bleeps and bloops, distant car alarms, ballistic fax machines, and an arsenal of low frequencies so brutal your woofers will require jumper cables. So, a heroic slab for both a block party in your brain and sunset in your soul, these two songs will bring back the Summer you just lost.

Published: 16th November 2020

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