Divine Interface ‎- Precious Cargo

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  • Last year, a small cadre of Atlanta producers hosted a Boiler Room. Divine Interface, real name Drew Briggs, acted as the DJ for Fit Of Body and played a short set to warm up the crowd. It revealed much about the weird, wonderful Atlanta scene. In Briggs' hands, ghetto-leaning house and electro feel like massive rap bangers. When he dropped Suicideyear's electro mix of Travis Porter, the room exploded. Briggs excellent five-track debut for the Atlanta label CGI Records wades through a similar gumbo of influences. The meat of the EP is three lo-fi dance floor tracks shot through with hip-hop attitude. On "Designer Desire," Briggs sings the praises of a woman with expensive tastes over a breakbeat track adorned with icy ambience. The title cut is a jacking ode to living young and reckless, Briggs deadpanning, "If we get pulled over, we get indicted." The hangover track, "Precious Cargo," digs through the emotional baggage of casual sex. Its auto-tuned chorus, "I don't mind you using me, as long as you find some use in me," could have been sung by Travis Scott or Lil Peep. The G-funk-inflected "On My Way" features the singsongy vocals of Clair Clair of the duo Coco & Clair Clair, a group that can be described as experimental hip-house. Divide It is another refreshing document from a tight-knit scene that's concerned with partying and experimentation rather than genre orthodoxy.
  • Tracklist
      A1 Designer Desire B1 Divide It B2 Precious Cargo B3 On My Way feat. Clair Clair
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