Gunnar Haslam – Porte Maillot

Artist Gunnar Haslam
Title Porte Maillot
Genre House, Electronic
Label L.I.E.S.
Catalog# LIES043
Released 2014
MP3 Download Source Vinyl
Play Time 20:51 min
Total Tracks 4
Bitrate 320 kbps

A1 – Fleuve (7:31)
A2 – Laghi Sotterranei (4:21)
B1 – Kohle (Beats) (6:26)
B2 – Archives (2:33)

Total Playtime: 20:51 min

One of L.I.E.S. most promising artists pays up a superb session of sub-aquatic house murk on ‘Porte Maillot’. A-side ‘Fleuve’ works right up our alley with tumbling voodoo drums and woozy pads like some soundtrack to being chased by evil spirits thru swampland at midnight. Not sure if that’s what you want in a club, but we wouldn’t say no. Similarly , ‘Laghi Sotterranei’ isolates the same sort of mystic tension at a much slower pace, whilst B-side ‘Kohle (Beats)’ ups the ante with bristling drum patterns and insistent bass surges layered with psychoactive samples drawing the ear outwards, and ‘Archives’ clocks out with a darker abstract tape vignette.