DJ Alex Corton – Vinyl Reviews

Good Looking Records

Flaco / mSdoS – Waiting For Love / Elements Of Jazz

2013

Good Looking Records hits its 90th release today. You could say it only really hit 86 based on the 4 Test Presses which never officially hit the stores, but it sums up how Bukem liked to hoard tracks away and test the patience of the vinyl hunters out there. Saying that, we have had a lot of those unreleased gems brought out into the open by many of the die hard labels of today. We are the music archeologists, forever searching and foraging for the memories and having them to hand on our shelves. 

   Adrien Smadbeck is U.S. D&B producer, Flaco. He had been producing for about 4 or 5 years prior to the release we focus on on today. This is his only release on Good Looking Records, but it most definitely leaves its positive mark.  

  Flaco is joined on this 12” plate, by Chris mSdoS, who returns for his next release on Good Looking following ‘Dots’. The Greek based producer was becoming more and more established, building his extensive portfolio of work. This will not be his last track on Good Looking Records either. 

   Side A has one of the best GLR tracks, post Millenium for me. Flaco puts together a heart stopping piece of music called ‘Waiting For Love’. While it flows as a liquid track, the work the breathes inside the confines is enough to make you hit the clouds of deep emotion and a feeling of seduced fulfillment. The vocals work like nectar filled raindrops floating down onto your head and the electronic fragments sweep you off your feet and into a thermal of cotton lined vortexes. Adrien really cracks the mold of the music here and gives us a tune that sounds fucking insanely good. From the very first time I heard this tune, I knew I’d be playing it a lot. It shakes your dreams and leaves the bullshit a long, long way behind. 

  Big props to Flaco and a job, very well done indeed. 

    Side B extracts the fibers of the soulful jazz bouquet accentuates the blooms of a moving and steady rhythmic jam from its piano, high ride cymbals, live sounding bass, and then the extra kick of the highest hats to push the heat up in the club to a cooking temperature. It’s the build that forms everything toward the breakdown. ‘Elements Of Jazz’ collects the revolving pods of freshly squeezed, back street flavors and pipettes the pure gold of swing style jazz into the skin of the listener. A jiving and swaying interpretation of classy music. 

   Thats another rung on the ladder of Good Looking Records complete. As we near the top, we can look back at how far we’ve come…mmmm…”how do we do that?” you ask? 

My blog of tunes on GLR may be of interest. I hope you enjoy reading the back catalogue of one of the most influential and important record labels in the history of jungle and drum and bass.