The original version of “Need Your Love” from RTJ & Elina made a huge impression in June, finding its way into the DJ bags of a diverse spectrum of DJs. The single merged classy subtleness with festival sized sounds and featured a captivating vocal from newcomer Elina. Now, Quartz Lock presents new versions for the mid-summer crowds that offer even more possibilities for this dance floor anthem. Remixes come from a new crop of rising talents including: Wesley Dysart, Eric M., Dub Mechanics, and Kash Trivedi.
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QLR011 // Need Your Love Remixes
Quartz Lock Records lays down the winning hand on their tenth release from label founders, the Quartz People. The EP also includes a sterling collection of accompanying remixes that are quite diverse. In fact, the only common thread here is funk, and there’s plenty to be had.
- Quartz People Original Mix
- Alisio Delgado Mix
- Contraband Mix
- Justin Johnson Mix
- Ricardo Pantoja’s Knee Deep Mix
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QLR010 // Royal Flush
Produced by Funky Junction (Sheeva Records), Rafi Levin (Quartz Lock Records), Dj Johnny A (Quartz Lock Records) and Miami-based singer/songwriter Elina (Quartz Lock/Sheeva). “Need Your Love” is a peak hour classic in the making comprised of tough, rolling beats intersecting with dramatic melodies and cascading, unique late night sounds. Elina’s ethereal vocals are wrapped in beautiful keys and a melancholy arrangement that lend an air of elegance and grace. Make no mistake, though, this is a massive main room anthem that will usher in the summer with a big bang.
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QLR009 // Need Your Love
0-0
A pumpin’ electronic slammer with hard sounds and explicit lyrics.
Drive by M
A catchy techno stormer with fat beats and a killer hook.
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QLR006 // Summer Massacre
L.O.K.I. is a live-act for the dance floor, an electronic music project created by Pedro Freixo and Jorge Tchacha, both of whom have a history tied to electronic composition. At the start of 2008 they launched their first tracks and debuted to a Portuguese audience and have frequently played throughout Portugal ever since.
The concert works as a whole, consistent, uniform and surprising. It’s born of the fusion between a techno-leaning style, unsettling beats and sweeping melodies, with a robustness such as that of the analogue equipment that delivers it.
The concept of mutation is inherent to L.O.K.I., with the live-acts assuming various forms, for which the artists always prepare and embody a new and bold performance, always with the unique sound that characterizes their music.
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QLR005 // ER1111
A.D.D.
Corrosive acid stains a track that is laden with tough bass lines and the tightly wound melodies of a late night techno cut.The cut expands through layers of glitchy beats and extended tribal workouts to arrive at a place that recalls the renegade feeling of early techno and EBM. Levin and Fernandes keep the mood dance floor appropriate throughout, focusing on a gentle glide to anchor the maelstrom. There is always this sense, however, that the whole thing could pull the roof down on top of itself in a fit of protracted self-mutilation.
E.C.G.
It sounds like a long lost Belgian rave classic brought up to modern standards with ample amounts of the polyrhythmic percussion that dominates today’s tracks. Add a menacing bass line that sounds like it was lifted from a sleazy old biker film and a few simple, yet effective, melodic elements and this track is guaranteed to inflict some heavy casualties on the dance floor.
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