- A longstanding collaborator with Tadd Mullinix as 2AM/FM (Mullinix is better known to house fans as James T. Cotton and to breakbeat fans as Dabrye), as well as Traxx, D'Marc Cantu has recently made some arty, fudge-dense house 12-inches for a couple of labels, notably Crème Organization. "Set Free" is a good bit lighter in feel than its predecessors—airier, with the aquatic feel and simple, languid melody of late '80s house taking to the stars and setting the stage (however unwittingly) for early trance, helped along by a squabbly, tweaked loop of envelope-filter noise.
"Tonight" is simpler, harder and closer to Cantu's Crème style: the 808 thrums big and hard, and there's a sticky feel to the production overall, typified by the humid-sounding electro-handclaps. But here the top end is more defined than usual, less boxed in, as abstracted voices and a curling, mutating synth line fight for space. There's such an abundance of lo-fi house right now that to hear someone going in the other direction is refreshing.
Tracklist A Set Free
B Tonight