Artist Gavin Guthrie
Title Gavin Guthrie AKA TX Connect
Genre House, Techno
Label Creme Organization
Catalog# CREME126869
Released 2014
MP3 Download Source WEB
Play Time 53:41 min
Total Tracks. 9
Bitrate 320 kbps
1. Soundtrack 909 ( 7:43)
2. 00707 ( 6:11)
3. Palm Sunday ( 8:08)
4. 666 Bass ( 6:12)
5. Metroplex Jaxx ( 6:03)
6. Snappy ( 4:12)
7. Aqua Finess ( 4:12)
8. Desmond’s Obsession ( 5:54)
9. Haddonfield, IL ( 5:06)
Total Playtime: 53:41 min
Next up on Creme Organization is Gavin Guthrie Aka TX Connect with a searing double album of analogue tracks aimed at the dancefloor. It follows Dallas man Guthrie’s excellent outings on Dixon Avenue Basement Jams, L.I.E.S. and other efforts on Bad Mums Club and again showcases his classic Midwest style run through with plenty of acid goodness.
Up first is ‘Soundtrack 909’, a deep and melodically rich house affair that sooths your soul before ‘00707’ gets rough, jagged and angst with its off time cowbells, brooding hi hats and ever more frantic acid. ‘Palm Sunday’ then explores more cosmic beat territory in playful, colourful style and ‘Metroplex Jaxx’ is a rugged, dystopian and foreboding acid jam with plenty of occult melody work buried deep within.
‘Aqua Finess’ is a wholly malfunctioning acid machine very much doing its own weird thing and on the last side of this double vinyl pack, ‘Desmond’s Obsession’ plays with whacked out electro aesthetics and ‘Haddonfield, IL’ leaves you on a dour and downbeat note thanks to its crawling synths and lumpy hooks.
Overall, this is an expansive and expressive double pack from TX Connect that has more than been the wait.
Dig the lukewarm reactions from the cognoscenti:
“interesting but not really all for me, but palm sunday is amazing, will use it!”
Marko Nastic (Radio B92 / Exit Festival, Belgrade)“Another palette of bangers – top work.”
Owain Kimber (Innate, Cardiff)“All amazing although Palm Sunday is the Bomb”
Stephen Brown (Indigo Aera/Realtime)“nice stuff”
Kuczera (Intergalactic FM, heerlen)“thank you for the music!”
Dj T (GET PHYSICAL MUSIC GMBH, Berlin)“909 is a sweet groove, like it!”
Michel De Hey“Solid stuff, plenty I can play!”
Tom Dicicco“Cool analogue electro as usual.”
Christereo“Cool analogue electro as usual.”
Christereo“well put together but probably not for me on balance. cheers”
James Fox / Severn Beach“nice varied acid ep, we really like Aqua Finess!”
AnD (Horizontal Ground / Inner Surface Music)“Downloading the full release to have a proper listen”
Ksoul (Ksoul & MuteOscillator, TORINO)“Solid stuff! ”
Ike Release“nice one! Snappy, 00707 & soundtrack 909!”
Aroy Dee“Awesome stuff. Loads I can play here. ”
Lakker / Eomac“snappy”
Solenoid (Graphene / Belief System, Berlin)“Not for me this time thanks”
Mosca (Ann Aimee, Not So Much, Prime Numbers, London)“great variety of tracks, which is what a album should be. top marks!”
Giles Armstrong“not quite my cup of tea, sorry.”
Electric Indigo (indigo:inc)“nice, all in all maybe a little too retro for my taste, but still solid. desmonds obesession stood out for me,”
alex cortex“00707 & Metroplex Jaxx are great!”
Chille jr. (Night Moves@Fnoob radio, Koprivnica)“Not very playable for me, but I dig the tracks!”
Truncate/Audio Injection“Desmonds obsessions for me.”
Leri Ahel (Mutant Disco Radio Show, Rijeka)“Metroplex jaxx gives me goosebumps. Loving the heavy baselines overall! Thanks ”
Bleak (c/o DRB Produktion, Stockholm)“excellent ! Palm Sunday Tape and Snappy fave tracks”
Tomaz (22tracks, Sint Pieters Leeuw)“Sweet Soundtrack 909”
Mathieu Galvani (All In Electro, London)“super nice dark synth stuff, Palm Sunday / Aqua Finess my fav tracks at 1st listening. thanks. ”
Angel Molina (Sonar Music, Barcelona)
