transatlantic nightclub
written and produced by robert doell, dennis desantis
paul keeley from vancouver, canada hailed his debut on thinner just january 2k4. the “sussex blue ep” was dedicated to atmospheric warm house choons with reduced vocal cut-ups and quickly made 3000+ downloads. the amazing feedback we received made us to unwrap more of pauls melodic grooves, alongside several new tracks from dennis desantis -thinner supporters from the beginning may know of dennis’ appearance on the first thinner mp3 release before he eventually signed with the kanzleramt sub-label k2o, who released his debut 12" "deviant" in january of 2002. selling out almost immediately, "deviant" garnered rave reviews from de-bug and groove and has appeared in the sets of such luminaries as dan bell and laurent garnier. other releases in 2002 included the "promotion of vice" 12" in april, two tracks on the k2o sampler cd in may, a split 12" with tom churchill on headspace in september (which was charted by the likes of john tejada and fabrice lig and was named a "sureplayer" by england′s dj magazine), a remix for alexander kowalski and the double-vinyl/cd release "reasons" with alex and diego hostettler in october (both on kanzleramt.) dennis′s debut album "clock wise" was released on k2o in june and quickly became one of the label′s top-selling albums. in march 2k3 dennis played several showcases with thinner in canada and, back home, also in germany.
before dennis and paul hooked up in order to play a couple of shows together in canada and north-america, they have been working on the “transatlantic nightclub ep”. it is the result of a strong networking between the axis vancouver/berlin. fresh breezes either of deepjazzy moody gems with massive hymn potential (“slick & slim”), clean harmolodic detroit-chordy techhouse (“on the gripping hand”) and infinity deepness (“ohcen”) characterize distinguished, yet somehow similar perspectives on modern house both players have. a truly devastating ep with reminiscences to the late transmat & theorem sounds and probably not the last collaboration of these likeminded characters.
text written by sebastian redenz
reviews
bleed | germany | 03/2004
je zwei tracks von beiden der acts und dazu noch von jedem ein remix des anderen machen diese 50 minuten zu einem release, das ganz schön glitzernd und chillig zwischen leichten housegrooves irgendwo an der grenze von detroitsound und housemusik hin und her pendelt. die tracks von paul keeley neigen dazu ein klein wenig kitschiger (mal zuviel wie ich finde, wie auf "slick & slim", mal genau dosiert wie bei "ohcen"), etwas mehr richtung deephouse zu driften und irgendwie sehnend zu klingen, die von dennis sind ein wenig upliftender und rocken in einem stil, der sich immer mehr fabrice lig annähert. für mich der hit der platte, für den es sich lohnt final scratch mit zum auflegen zu nehmen: "reflexive calvinist twitch" mit seinen verkreuzten raveschnippselstakkatos und dem druntergemogelten soulvocal.