Call Super - A Rhythm Protects One (Dekmantel) [House]

*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's October 16th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***

Having sold mixtapes (well CDs) of all descriptions on Camden Market for five years, just before Napster fuelled downloading hammered the last nails into the coffin of physical music (don’t believe the vinyl hype), I still have a soft spot for them, and although we’re now drowning in mixes and with my financial incentive to listen gone, I rarely check them these days, but I still know a good thing when I hear it.

It also helps that Call Super is at the controls, not to mention embedded in the speakers. They’re an artist who’s been consistently great from the off - both their productions and DJ sets go deep. There’s an obvious appreciation of house and techno’s roots as well as all the genre’s meaningful mutations, coupled with a desire to innovate rather than replicate.

So how do you go about making a DJ mix special these days? Well rather than look far and wide for music that shares your vision, you can start by inventing more aliases than a schizophrenic on meth, then hunker down in a studio until people start calling the police wondering where you are, painstakingly make each track from scratch and sequence them like a pro before cabin fever sets in. Easy.

Call Super starts slow - the age old sign of confident and mature selectors the world over, with a haunted slice of glitchy jazz infused downtempo that dissolves into it’s double timing minimal house cousin and so the journey begins. Bumping tech house, cosmic deep house, Afrolatin driven soulful house, star gazing tribal techno, ambient spoken word interludes and futuristic speed garage bass bin testers are all there, impeccably mixed and mastered, sounding crispy and propulsive, ready for the next time you want a pre-club livener or a living room rave up.

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Playlist Companion

For more underground house get down to the Slow House Playlist.