DJ Rocca - Good Old Rolling EP

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  • One of Italy's finest DJ's and producers DJ Rocca makes his debut on one of Italy's premier breakbeat labels, Mantra Breaks. Rocca is already known for his releases with 5th Suite on UK breaks label Functional Breaks and has also collaborated with 2-step pioneer Zed Bias as Da Luq on Soulja Records and has also extensively DJ'ed in Italy's Maffia club. His debut release for Mantra is a 3-tune EP featuring a variety of breakbeat styles. At The Train First up is At The Train which features a housey percussive breakbeat with an electro arpeggio and synth line layered over the top and female vocal stabs added in. The main breakbeat has a distinct shuffle about it with highly syncopated snares while on the bottom end of the spectrum a dirty, growling electro bassline makes sure things keep rumbling along. Should work on both electro and breaks floors with lots of crossover potential. Give Up! (Maffia Soundsystem Mix) This one is probably produced with the Maffia club's soundsystem in mind and kicks off with a mellow intro featuring long synth sweeps and a tight rolling break. To admit, I personally didn't find the intro appealling... that is until Rocca got into the meat of the tune. A big 4 to the floor booming bass line butts in with a hip hop vocal sample placed on top and a wicked horn line. It seems like Rocca was just teasing us with the intro then smacks us over the head with a lethal combination of breaks and bass. Dubby Jay On the opposite side of the breaks spectrum is Dubby Jay, which as suggested by the title is a laidback dubby groove with a mellow synth line, a dubby precussive break with lots of deep hollow tones used. To top it all off, Rocca drops in a few vocal stabs and a jazzy keyboard hook and deep bass.
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