Hans Thalau - Me and I : New From Fresh Meat Recordings

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Artist: Hans Thalau
Release: Me and I
Remixers: Matthias Vogt, Nathan Drew Larsen
Label: Fresh Meat (FMR35)
Available Now From: Beatport



Track List (click to listen to a preview):
1. Me
2. And I (Nathan Drew Larsen Remix)
3. Me (Matthias Vogt Remix)
4. And I

Much like his music, the talented Hans Thalau came to Fresh Meat's attention organically through praise from our friend Matthias Vogt. The two originals offered here, “And I” and “Me”, are subtle groovers utilizing a stylish economy. They are quintessentially Fresh Meat in that they make temporal pigeon holes useless. Hans' music is of the kind experienced House DJs will return to time and time again. His previous work for labels like Ferox, Moonpool and Trenton have found their way into the record bags of major players like Jimpster, Josh Wink, DJ Deep, Ewan Pearson and Anja Schneider.

The original version of “Me” is a tasteful builder. Shiny drum machine percussion is wedged against a single oscillator bouncing bass line and coated with electric piano, a filtered saw pad and ghostly male vocal chants. On remix duties we enlist the considerable talents of matchmaker Matthias Vogt (of Motorcitysoul fame). Matthias keeps the bass line and vocal chants of the original intact adding layers of new hypnotically insistent synths lines. Vogt's delicate touch moves the track almost into psychedelic territory teasing and twisting each element to its most outward reaching cosmic limit. We love House music like this that shakes the hips while reaching into the imagination.

“And I” original version has more snap and crackle to it. Female vocal snippets play with shakers, a tidy discoesque bass line, tripping keys, a whirling mono pad and reverberated space tom-tom knock. There's just a bit more jak in “And I”, which is why our Nathan Drew Larsen took the helm for a heady reworking. While Hans' productions are unapologetically square, Nathan shoots from the hip with a loose improvised approach. He begins by layering live rhythm parts and sampled objects followed by unquantized analog drums. Nathan keeps the vocal stabs running them less regularly, and plays innocently with the original's main stabs bending them to the will of his Chicago-centric chugging party machine. He keeps the jaunt together with three layers of bass; one echoing the percussion, the second talking back to the toms and the last bellowing from his beloved Moog Voyager into subsonic space.



SELECTED FEEDBACK:
Laurent Garnier - Great funky deepness. Really like this EP. Will play a lot.
DJ Sneak - Superb mixes.
Simon Baker - Nice deep groovers.
Florian Kruse - Another good release on one of my favorite labels!
Audiofly - Absolutely timeless EP...this will get played in all its glory in our sets.
Charles Webster - Me is my fave here.
Rene Vaiti - Well done! 5/5
Soul Minority - Another great release, love all the tracks, both originals are really subtle and deep, while both remixes keeps that vibe but with a more dance floor approach. Simply love it!
Terry Mullan - Really digging 'Me' and Nathan's remix of 'And I'.
Desyn Masiello - And I is wikid. support...
Brett Johnson - Loving all of it...nice release.
Chris Duckenfield - NDL remix for me, excellent once again.
The Timewriter - "And I" is the one for me here. Excellent track with superb chord play.
Shur-I-Kan - Cool set of grooves - Hans Thalau coming through.
Luke Solomon - I like this bad boy
Justin Long - Nathan's mix brings me back to a time that I can only visit though the wormhole of sound! Thank you for this one! WILL BE SMASHING THIS ONE!
Phil Weeks - Nice - “And I”!!
Llorca (Art of Tones) - Some good music here. I like the whole EP, not really able to say whether I'll play originals or remixes. Nathan, once again, did a good job and delivers the most funky remix of the pack.
Joeski - And I is dope!
Jori Hulkkonen - Nathan Drew delivers the goods on this one - big time!
Alland Byallo - LOVE IT! Nathan's remix is the biz!
Giom - Great stuff! Very now, very cool, very good! I like it
Jay Tripwire - I like me and I like that song named “Me” too...the bass on the Mathias Vogt remix will crush people on the Funktion 1.
Deepchild - Brilliant, top-shelf realness, straight-up. Deep as it gets and chunkier than yo mamma's french-fries.
Dean Facer - Awesome release. I will support & review. 10/10
Jozif - Great stuff per usual. Thanks for sending.


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