- Dude Energy is the latest alias from Diego Herrera, the LA producer also known as Suzanne Kraft. His new self-titled EP arrives on Animals Dancing, the label offshoot of a Melbourne party of the same name (Herrera's second record for an Australian outfit in the last three months, following November's Tracks For Performance on Noise In My Head). Its name might suggest something testosterone-driven, but Dude Energy shows Herrera doing what he does best: crafty deep house with a Balearic tinge.
Dude Energy's A-side steals the show. "Renee Running" is a lean club track with a tongue-in-cheek sense of drama, full of backwards drum fills, glassy chords and a kitschy Eastern melody. The drums have an almost electro crispness to them, something that's also true of the other two tracks, "Some Desire" and "Beat Desire," both of which are peppy beat work-outs with a sun-kissed sheen. Those two are good DJ tools, but it's the A-side that, like most of his recent records, marks out Herrera as an inspired artist on a roll.
TracklistA1 Renee Running
B1 Some Desire
B2 Beat Desire