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Alex Preda – Chasing Light/ DNA Matching [Manual Music]

by Priya Sen November 30, 2015

Manual Music imprint welcomes the Netherlands based ultra talented Alex Preda in to the fold with his fresh as funk offering titled – “Chasing Light/ DNA Matching EP”. Two tracks that perfectly fits in with the times. Echoing summery vocals riddle the middle and flirty chord play, jostle against that bounce and shuffling hats of – “Chasing Light”, while a funky bass line takes care of the lows. There is no mistaking, this is a House record. The crispy clatters and multi colored facade of the track gets out thudding through the bins, which should get a great work out, matching nicely along-with your feet to the floor grooves.
This one gets a lone remix from label head Paul Hazendonk whose pursuit remains stylish, reworking the original with submerged bass and very little that’ll remind you of Preda’s original.There’s a dazed oscillation in the remix pressed up tight with the repetitive hook line and dubby bass going kind of off kilter, nicely. The far off synth accompanies the throttle present, all the while you press for the sway, as the remix gets bigger and bigger unfolding one step at a time.

On the other side – “DNA Matching” see’s Amber Long sounding better than ever, lending her vocals in an altogether coquettish way, along-side Alex’s potent second tracker, designed to do much damage on the floor. It’s a jolt, with the wild divergences in the sound palette making all the difference. He puts a fair amount of bare-boned synths and tweaked out siren calls dancing around an invigorating barrage of big room bass, while soft lashes of treated vocals pop out of the arrangement silky smooth. Gaudy, peculiar and irresistibly funky, and if that doesn’t pique your interest, I don’t even know you anymore.
Arnas D’s Dub mix finishes the pack up gloriously, as he does away with niceties and goes for the dance floor jugular, by indexing a shameless amount of swirling cosmic atmospherics and lilting hazy pads, brawny bass that invokes images of life on an outer-space oil refinery. Expertly executed, it swerves in and out of a refurbished slim as a snake this time around siren rework, and Long’s vocals change to suspenseful haunting calls, underpinned by stiff head-nodding beats.
This one’s coming up as soon as November ends!!