Incepted in 2018 with their maiden iteration "Like Children" EP for Pleasure Zone Limited, the BMW wonderteam - alias Christian Burkhardt, MEAT and Chris Wood - clocks in this Spring with their debut full-length, "Jump Around", only preceded by its eponymous lead single, which made it to Cinthie's long-awaited DJ-Kicks compilation, out on !K7. True to the trio's jovial spirit and approach, "Jump Around" lives up to its initial mantra with style, putting on offer no less than eight joints instinctively tailored to bring the sweatbox to an endless simmer throughout.
First in line, "Deeper" gets the ball rolling true Detroit house-style as it pulls out a pulsating mix of filtered loops, obsessive strings and jacking drums, topped off with fragments of inspirational chatter to keep your brain educated while getting down to that infectious chugger. A further breaksy affair, "Music" revs up the engines to settle down somewhere betwixt electroid hedonism and loungey house vibes, organically going with the flow of aqueous bass and verbed-out, silken drums that drives its drippingly sensual motion. The very paragon of a 21st century jacking disco tune - monster edition this one, "Super Sync" cranks up the heat one notch further with its ebullient combo of chiselled funk bass, spiralling synths and fluttering melodies dissolving into the aether. "Upstairs" carves out a more left-of-centre, ambient-friendly lane, yet fleshed out with epic-sized sub traction and a raucous yet vaporous sound design that make it perfectly fitted for sustained club operations.
Driven by a weirder influx and syncopated swagger, "Don't Make Me Wait" goes straight for the jugular with its doped-up programming and playful amalgam of oddball synth spook, processed vox stabs and unrelenting bass onslaughts. A slice of true housey audacity, the lead single "Jump Around" exhales flavours and aromas of French Touch-ness laced with a whiff of acid and subdued RnB, inch-perfectly calibrated to have euphoric crowds moving as one. Cutting a path of space opera-compatible elation across the dance floor, "There Is No Reason" reels out a weirdo sequence of wonky bass flexions, rattling percussions and exoplanetary tapestries. Final number "Great Groove" rounds off the package on a proper dynamic, DJ-friendly note, slowly hatching into something of a falsely spacious finale, then back to an ultimate salvo of hi-NRG jack that'll get everyone on their knees.
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