- Kris Wadsworth's 2009 (or, more likely, his 2008) was busier than yours. Discogs counts eight full-fledged solo releases and five remixes to his name. And every single one of them with a different label. 2010? Not so much. It's now the end of June, and the Detroit producer's first release is just now finally seeing the light of day on one of the few imprints to put out more than one KW EP, Morris / Audio.
Wadsworth has a keen sense of humor, so it's likely the title of this, ahem, package is down to him. The music contained therein, however, is all business. (The business in this case: Taking deep house tropes and shifting them around so that they deftly avoid cliche.) The key is in the detail. Wadsworth's beats are often straighter than most, but he swings them ever so slightly here to create a compelling sense of momentum. "Junky Lust" hits especially hard, taking a snatch of a piano in hand and figuring every which way it can be started, finished, cut and re-cut. He doesn't polish it, though: You can hear the air of the room disappear each time he comes to the end of the sample. Here and elsewhere, Wadsworth is intent on you hearing the effort that went into A Sexual Position. It was time well spent.
Tracklist A1 For Life
A2 Junky Lust
B1 Present State