Sleepfreaks - Crash / Distant Mellow mp3 download

Rollers from Abdun

Distant Mellow is the track. It really is incredible when played out loud over a big sound system. I love the girl's emotive, plaintive vocal, 'I Wanted You'. A massive, massive, emotive hypnotic 6 a.m. groover. This came out around the time of the Halo & Hipp-e and San Fran Siesta sound and feels like a direct connection to it but with a +2 faster bpm. This is probably one of the most hypnotic house tracks I own and have ever heard. Can be pitched right down for that Tribal America rhythm.....A truely brilliant track.

Hudora

Prog house can often have a tendency to plod along at a fairly pedestrian speed, with rather woolly percussion, before falling into a chasm of a breakdown which it never fully recovers from. Step forward the Sleepfreaks: I'm a fan of a lot of their work but this release has to be my favourite. At the time this came out I felt they injected a much needed rush of energy into a genre that was quickly growing in danger of ascending up it's own rectum, as well as applying a chugging tech-trancey vibe, stripping out the cheesy melodic and over-worked hooks and employing a single-note bassline throughout. Even the breakdowns provided only a brief respite before the energy kicked back in to take it up a notch. 'Crash' is a masterful piece of simplistic, driving prog-trance that builds it's hypnotic furor over the full length of the track, making you want to stick around until the end when the last gasp of urgent energy leaves you breathless. 'Distant Mellow' pitches a more sophisticated set of pads and percussion over a driving, increasingly aggressive hook that's insistent to the point of cutting the mid-placed break to a few brief seconds before we're heading back into the milieu. A pair of bombs, in the nicest sense of the word.