Arapu - Hazard

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  • We all know the drill: a tune gets made, then shared among the producer's circle of DJ friends and associates. This happens right across dance music, within the crews of Hot Creations and Innervisions, through to outfits surrounding Hessle Audio, Perlon and [a:rpia:r]. Then, a few months or even years down the line, the track in question might get a proper release. But there's no formula for deciding what ends up on wax—in minimalist dance music, some of the hottest unreleased tracks seem unlikely to ever come out, while others hit shelves just months after being debuted at a party. Arapu's "So Doo"—appearing on his three-track Hazard EP—is one of the bombs we're lucky enough to get our hands on relatively quickly. A few top-tier Romanians rinsed it for much of last year: Petre Inspirescu played it at Sunwaves 17, and Rhadoo opened his set with it at Sonus festival in Croatia a few months later. It's easy to see why it stood out among the more abstract unreleased material that Inspirescu and his friends play—it's crisp and delightfully functional, with a bright and spacey aesthetic based around splashes of catchy melody. It's joined by "Hazard" and "No More Space," two more low-slung cuts that are similarly groovy but darker. But if you're the kind of DJ who plays stuff like "So Doo," they're bound to come in handy.
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      A1 Hazard B1 So Doo B2 No More Space
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