Fifty Fathoms Deep
Marquis Hawkes
LABEL: Houndstooth | HTH028D
GENRE: Tech House
RELEASED: 2014
MP3 DOWNLOAD SOURCE: WEB
BITRATE: 320kbps / 44100kHz / Full Stereo
TRACKS: 4
SIZE: 60.04 megs
TRACKLIST
1. Can’t Find A Reason 6:35
2. The Way 6:34
3. Fifty Fathoms 6:02
4. Fat Man 5:47
Total Playtime: 24:58 min
Cosmobox Direct DownloadsFifty Fathoms Deep marks the Houndstooth debut of Dixon Avenue Basement Jams member Marquis Hawkes. Interestingly, it largely eschews his raw and distorted machine funk sound in favour of a range of far smoother and polished cuts. Opener “Can’t Find a Reason” is a formidable basement house jam – a ’90s-influenced chunk of synth-bass driven garage-house that comes laden with cut-up vocal snippets and exotic melodies. Steve Downes collaboration “The Way” sounds like vintage Mr Fingers, while “Fifty Fathoms” fuses twinkling piano melodies and drifting vocal samples with a shuffling deep house rhythm. Finally, “Fat Man” draws influences from vintage ’80s electro and synth-funk, melding them into a squidgy house groover.