- For someone only born in the early '90s, California producer Urulu, AKA Taylor Freels, has a impressively complete grasp of what makes a classic house cut. For this second release on LPH White, a new offshoot of Let's Play House, Freels follows up the impressive Waze & Odyssey remix he contributed to the label's first EP with four original cuts of well-executed peak-time house.
Opener "'92 Symphony" sets the EP's mood by taking off at a ferocious lick, with hooky vocal samples and a thumping bass drum duelling with insistent synths. "Kim's Theme" runs along similar lines, carrying itself forward on racing hi-hats, and adding a deep-filtered mid-track breakdown. "Sunset Blvd." pairs more booming kicks with a flexing synth loop, while "Pacific Coast" is a similarly pacy but more spectral beast, a chiming, spacey synth mingling with another vocal loop and softer drums. Variation is at a premium here (as you'd perhaps expect from a label with stated dance floor aims) but each of these tracks will fit snugly into sets from any number of house's current hot tickets.
Tracklist A1 92 Symphony
A2 Kim's Theme
B1 Sunset Blvd
B2 Pacific Coast