- RA user interstellar claims that Jouem is, in fact, Sven Weisemann. It's a good bet. The watery downtempo deep house of both Levitation and, now, Drifting aren't a giant leap to make from the sound palette found on the Berlin resident's Xine. There's a similar focus on melody that makes the beat a relative afterthought, a mere timekeeper for the interlocking pools of melody. But don't underestimate the beat either. Despite the label's name, there's a subtle hypnotism at work on Drifting that owes as much to its clockwork drums as its luminous synths.
"Drifting" and "Dyad" are so close in sound that it's hardly worth the effort to describe them individually. (The biggest difference? "Drifting" is 110 BPM, while "Dyad" is 115.) It's patient, dubby and seemingly flies directly in the face of the strident run-in groove etching, which claims "we rise what else can we do, we fucking rise." Perhaps, though, in a world where everyone has to yell to be heard, the most revolutionary thing that you can do is to simply speak softly, slowly and beautifully. Drifting sees Jouem doing all three of those things yet again.
TracklistA1 Drifting
B1 Dyad