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Good Looking Records

Soulmatic / Furney – Self Belief / Distance

2009

This is the first Good Looking Records release of 2009. The year that we saw 9 releases from the label before another lull. Five of the nine releases were officially released, and the other four only hit the Test Press stage. Next week we will go over the ones I have on my shelf but we will have our first gaps in the label, which is a tad frustrating, but I just couldn’t afford (or was quick enough) to bag GLR077-78. Maybe one day they’ll find a way in. 

    Soulmatic is Daniel Carlsen, and his debut was with Utah Jazz in 2006. He was making music until around 2009 under the Soulmatic name and then teamed up again with Luke in 2010. I wonder what Daniel is up to these days? His work was always well produced. Side A provides ‘Self Belief’ taking those early liquid strands and entwining them with a sumptuous chello string and the layering of the beats, up to that first breakdown. This is how quality liquid drum and bass should sound. “Heaverrrrrn”. Then we get that drop, and a bass line that fills every molecule of the around you with a generating rocket launch. Soulmatic rolled out one flaming slab of nitrous power with this tune. It makes you want to move and dance during every second of the tune. Having such a simple ascending riff in this tune, giving us this classical music meets drum and bass construction of sound is one impressive piece of music. 

    Furney is back on GLR next on Side AA with a track ‘Distance’ that provides us with Furney doing what he does best. This liquid groove is one off the Furney carriage of work that pushes the last review off to the side (Pipez…ugh), and drops the hand perfectly back into the glove of normality. ‘Distance’ takes the picturesque road by the coast line and absorbs the ocean winds while bursting the setting rays of the sun into your skin. You close your eyes (stop the car first), and let the inner eyelids give you that red lens to release the lighter moments of the journey this tune gives you. For me, it doesn’t reach the levels of the A Side but in the bigger picture of the millions of liquid tunes that are floating around, it’s got a wicked break and plenty of percussion to enjoy rather than the standard minimal work of a lot of tunes in that field. It’s one that keeps the dance floor bubbling anyway. 

    That’s another GLR plate down. We have the next one up tomorrow. My blog is here with each GLR so far. I hope you get to read a few.