Disco Horror

We return from our week-long absence here at Disco Horror to bring you a trifecta of recent down-tempo house favorites, each constructed with a solid foundation of dance-floor friendly grooves and tastefully ornamented with melancholic vocal samples to create some of the finest contemporary tune-architecture in the biz.

Floating Points- aka Sam Shepard- has been deservedly receiving much attention for his latest release- the ‘Love Me Like This’ 12-inch on R2 Records. Borrowing heavily from Real to Reel’s track of the same name, the title track applies the slo-mo disco treatment to the original with brilliant results. The one that’s making the rounds on the interweb right now is the original mix, but it’s the vinyl-only ‘Radio Mix’ that has been getting all the plays at my house lately. The ‘Radio Mix’ utilizes the Real to Reel track’s vocals in more instantly-gratifying ways, and the result is slightly less Mark E and slightly more vintage Levan. But only slightly.

Floating Points – Love Me Like This (Radio Version)

New Orleans-based artist Walter Jones has recently made the jump from the German label Supersoul to perennial Disco Horror favorite DFA Records, and to mark the occasion they’ve put out the man’s fantastic new twelve-inch ‘I’ll Keep On Loving You’. Other blogs are flipping out over the b-side “Living Without Your Love,” which is a great tune, don’t get me wrong, but I actually prefer the title track if given the choice. Featuring muted synth lines and some heavily filtered vocal snippets from Jones himself, the sound here lands somewhere between current italo-revivalists like Bogdan Irkuk or Johan Agebjörn and the Detroit-style disco-house edits of Theo Parrish. Which is some pretty incredible territory to land yourself in, as it turns out.

Walter Jones – I’ll Keep On Loving You

Finally, we have a new tune for you from one of my favorite modern producers- Hamburg’s Marco Niemerski, better known as Tensnake. Rising to my radar with his awesome ‘Keep Believin’ EP on Endless Flight and a slough of ace remixes, Tensnake recently cemented his place in my heart with the ‘In the End (I Want To Cry)’ twelve-inch on Running Back. As usual, all of the tracks on the EP are more than worthy of your time, varying in style from more straightforward techno productions to stylish nu-balearica to glitzy disco-house jams. However, (yet again) it’s the title track here that stands out the most, nicely sequencing all of those elements into another exemplary filter-disco showcase.

Tensnake – In the End (I Want To Cry)