Yore returns with yet another Deep Master Piece. Javier Alvarez, a Madrid-based producer and proprietor (along with his younger brother Dubbyman) of the underground label Deep Explorer Music, brings his relaxed Above Smoke sound to the Yore imprint. In the first of four warm and atmospheric mood pieces, “Awfully” drapes dense synthetic winds over a deliciously grooving, bass-prodded deep house pulse. “Get Down” does exactly that with five funky minutes of Rhodes chords, disco hi-hats, and synth swirls; a percolating bass line lends the track a propulsive charge, while crowd voices give the cut a party vibe. On the B side’s “The Fix” Javier scatters chopped fragments of the spoken line, I’ve got a lot of shit to say and I can’t say it all in one day, I can’t say it all on one piece of tape, over a funk-house groove, after which Dubbyman offers variations on the theme in his remix of the track; Dubbyman’s version digs deeper into the cut’s bass science and warms the tune’s slinky pulse with hand percussion and claps. Old-school in its embrace of classic house sounds, Above Smoke’s EP is tailor-made for those who like their material laid-back, groove-centered, and funky.

De:Bug Magazin: “Drei sehr sanfte Housetracks mit viel harmonischem Hintergrund und süßlichen Melodien und ein Dubbyman-Remix dazu. Die Musik von Above Smoke ist so sicher in ihrer Deepness, dass man fast traumwandlerisch durch die Tracks schwingt und sich dabei immer gut aufgehoben fühlt. Warm und elegant, aber vielleicht auch einen Hauch zu klassisch manchmal und im Dubbyman-Remix wird dann klar, wie deep auch ein Hauch von Reduktion bei solchen Tracks wirken könnte.”