Cut Chemist - Adidas To Addis EP

Channelling equal parts sub-Saharan chants, ‘Trans Europe Express’, a love for nasty snare rolls, and a crossfader/delay pedal match-up that’s unrivaled for sheer creativity, Cut Chemist drops a pair of beefed-up club friendly versions of tracks featured on his recent ‘Sound Of The Police’ mix. The A-side begins as a near-hypnotic Ethiopian sounding epic story as told by a chorus of female voices, punctuated with optimum intermittent cuts and stabs at an evolving pace, emerging on the other end as some sort of post-cut-and-paste stream of consciousness "speaks with his hands" composition... engaging and well-executed, perhaps intuitively, embracing the spirit of the African rhythms while adding to them with his "drums" (aka delay pedal) and turntable. B-side is an Afro-Brazilian piano-driven hybrid that recalls Earth Wind & Fire while keeping the Batuque bounce rolling with female vocals again providing the juice. 

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