Adab-ı Rakı by eclectics

CLIPS FOR ALL THE TRACKS. https://soundcloud.com/eclectics28/sets/kaan-adab-i-raki-ep

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Number 9 from Eclectics might not be a revolution as such, but it’s certainly a revelation. The label continues its pioneering, worldwide search for the finest tunes they can find, and their wide-cast net has, once again, caught something very special indeed. Enigmatic Turkish producer KaaN offers up original track Adab i Raki while Project Spectre (Clandestino’s Iain Mcbeath), Ed Mahon and Field of Dreams vie to make the track their own.

One listen to the original is enough to understand while they’re all so keen to do so. It snaps along with real purpose while echoed steel drums provide the tonal signature against on top of which Makam melodies flow courtesy of beautifully bowed strings. File next to Malka Tuti or Disco Halal for likely bedfellows.

Project Spectre introduces a slight canter to the piece and slices things up to increase the pace. Introducing the feel of heritage house to a track already steeped in history and tradition is a clever call and one that will work on dancefloors and headphones alike.

Field of Dreams, meanwhile, pays full respect to the original, while adding in some deft touches of his own. These include spacebound synth stabs and some fantastically insistent 808 sounding snare patterns, which all adds up to a sound that’s geared as much to the head as the feet – music to make your mind bogle, if you will.

Lastly it’s the turn of Alfresco Festival’s Ed Mahon, who takes a different approach altogether and rips the thing apart before reconstructing it with a neck-snapping urgency and a bass that will be troubling chest cavities long after the party has finished. It is, not to put too finer point on it, an absolute monster of a remix.

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