Leisure Connection - Jungle Dancing / Wave Riding

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  • Leisure Connection is two American indie guys making club music, and, in a good way, it shows. The duo is Aaron Coynes, who's one half of Peaking Lights, and Nate Archer, his former bandmate in another duo, Rahdunes. Both specialize in the kind of psychedelic, krautrock-inspired stuff that mostly exists on cassette and self-released CD-R, or labels like Mexican Summer and 100% Silk, both of which have released Coynes's music. Their first record as Leisure Connection, which comes out on No 'Label,' a Rush Hour subsidiary that's also released music by Heatsick and Inga Copeland, anchors that aesthetic to a 4/4 pulse. Like so much of Peaking Lights' music, "Jungle Dancing" is heavily indebted to dub reggae, with old school reverb and a single repeating chord that evokes a feeling of sweltering heat. It's plodding and lo-fi, but funky nonetheless, with a catchy bassline and reams of improvised percussion. "Wave Riding" is more of a psychedelic freak-out, with loose, earthy drums and sun-kissed melodies floating around, but it still has a persistent bassline and a steady kick drum. At ten-plus minutes a piece, and without predictable arrangements, both feel like off-the-cuff jams rather than conventional productions, and they're all the better for it.
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      A Jungle Dancing B Wave Riding
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