Title: Festival Queen Artist: Charles Levine Label: Stratasonic Product Type: 12-INCH SINGLE UPC: 198588476451 Genre: Dance Release Date: 2024-06-28 Number of Discs: 1
Charles Levine is best known as one half of Soul Clap, the love-fuelled production and DJ duo that brought all new emotions to the dance music scene when they first emerged in the mid-noughties. MartinButtrich is an acclaimed studio wizard and Grammy-nominated producer with an enviable discography that pairs meticulous synth craft with compelling grooves from across the house spectrum. Together, the two have formed a close friendship originally stemming from a 2016 collaboration where Buttrich mixed and added production to Soul Clap's self-titled second album which was released on !K7 Records. Since then, Buttrich and Levine have worked their way through a variety of studio sessions, exciting moments of synthesis and deep philosophical wax-ings, ultimately culminating in this present moment in time on Stratasonic. They open up their new EP with 'Festival Queen', a powerful and fulsome cut with angelic vocals working you into a frenzied state as the percussive grooves power on. After a pulsating, stripped-back Dub allows the colorful synth work to shine, 'Festival Queen Reprise' is stripped of the drums and becomes a more heavenly piece perfect for comedowns. 'Charlie & The Moog' is a deep and playful trippy affair with languid synths bringing cheeky energy to the loose-limbed drums. It's a cosmic world of ever-shifting melody that warps space and time, and a dub gets even more wonderfully woozy. Tracklisting:A1. Festival Queen A2. Festival Queen (Dub) B1. Charlie & the Moog B2. Charlie & the Moog (Dub)
