Indoor Pool by Runaway

Let's Play House Records is a new venture helmed by New York City DJ/producer Jacques Renault and editor/journalist Nik Mercer. The two began Let's Play House—a biweekly, roving house and disco party featuring local and international talent alike—in late 2009, and since have hosted the likes of Horse Meat Disco, Rub N' Tug, Morgan Geist, TBD, Mugwump, the Rapture, Mock N' Toof, and many more. LPH Records marks the partners' foray into the physical manifestation of the Brooklyn warehouse party’s energy and spirit.

The debut release features a deep, dark house jam by Runaway (Jacques Renault's production venture with NYC staple Marcos Cabral). "Indoor Pool“ opens with a sharp, driving beat and spooky synth swirls that swell into a heavy, muscular bass groove, jacked up by a driving kick, phased effects, and vocal samples.

The three remixes come courtesy of a veritable who's who of the slow-mo disco-house scene, including New York's Slow Hands, UK stalwarts and edits dons Soft Rocks, and Washington, D.C.'s genre-bending and -morphing production team Beautiful Swimmers. Each one sheds light on a different aspect of the original, offering variations equally melodic, retro and driving.

Fittingly, the cover artwork features pictures from an indoor pool photo shoot by local photographer Ruvan Wijesooriya, who shot the cover of LCD Soundsystem’s "This Is Happening.“

Resident Advisor review:
"When people ask me where to go in New York for clubbing these days, I tell them to ignore the venue, and follow the party. The best parties this city has to offer are usually venue-hoppers, for whatever reason. I'm still not exactly sure why. Case in point is Let's Play House, the largely Brooklyn affair piloted by Nik Mercer and Jacques Renault. After years of hosting a steady stream of disco-house's finest acts in a variety of locations, the boys have branched out into the record game, with a sublabel to cohort James Friedman's Throne of Blood label, an arrangement that nicely grants LPH access to distribution through Kompakt.

To break ground on the Let's Play House label Renault and his Runaway partner Marcos Cabral offer "Indoor Pool," and have rustled up a few alumni of LPH parties for remix duty. The original version is fully in the Runaway vein, a dubby house jam with an abundance of analog grit. Holding everything together is an analog-y synth pad that sounds a bit like a foghorn, and a nicely reverbed hi-hat that cuts through the murk.

Soft Rocks' remix trades so heavily in that stripped-down warehouse vibe that it almost sounds like they forgot to finish it. They let the big, plodding Roland drums do the talking, and they stomp around with dubby, drunken abandon while little gasps from the original try to get a word in edgewise. Slow Hands manages to squeeze in a good amount of the original, vocal sample and foghorn pad, and yet somehow still has room to let loose the sort of sunny, chunky-key cruise-ship funk that colored the stellar "Belle of the Ball" single earlier this year. Beautiful Swimmers, whose name alone makes them an obvious choice to remix a song called Indoor Pool, offer a schizo take which toggles between edgy, minimal goblin house and unexpected bursts of bright chords, neatly splitting the difference between Soft Rocks' uncompromising dub and Slow Hands' crowd pleaser."

Brooklyn based DJ, producer and A&R.

Owner of Let's Play House, On The Prowl and Schatzi.

Also in the group Runaway with Marcos Cabral and Goodnight Moon with Mark Verbos.

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