- Gpal has received a lot of praise over his last few outings on Yoshitoshi and Shinichi with some very fine releases including the brilliant ‘Beneath the Surface EP’. Here we see Gpal get his turn on the new label, YO, with a remix coming from the very talented The Greek who has been featured heavily on the latest Deep Dish Global Underground.
The Main mix is a superbly crafted production of solid beats and emotive elements. From the outset the mix takes you into some unique percussion with the vocal making its presence felt early. As the mix drives onward, the beat double kicks giving it that extra kick and makes way for the very smooth guitar sounding melody and light hit hats. Gpal keeps it simply and minimal giving the different elements their time to make an impact as the whole feeling deepens with atmospheric synths while the vocal shows up sporadically. The breakdown utilizes the early percussion then the swirling sounds flood over, taking it back in to the groove that is then cut short by another breakdown of similar fashion. No guessing what happens after that.
The Greek remix has a little more up and go with driving beats from the start while accompanied by the reworking of the melody. The stabbing chords are quite uplifting as the vocal spreads across the beat as the mix is added with more deepening synths and sounds. The breakdown lowers the bass slowly as a gorgeous epic guitar lead breakdown is spine chilling while the vocal is scattered slowly. The build to the beat is fantastic as the synths return to make even more hairs stand on end and more driving beats are forced to the surface. The track rounds out with all the melodies coming in from everywhere.
This is a very solid release from Gpal and the remix from The Greek has probably got the jump on the original, but both together are class.