Earthboogie – Earthboogie – Human Call / LENGLP013

RELEASE: Earthboogie – Human Call
ARTIST(S): Nina Miranda, Earthboogie

REMIXERS:

LABEL: Leng Records / LENGLP013
GENRE: Indie Dance / Nu Disco
RELEASED: 2018-05-25
BITRATE: 320Kbps
DOWNLOAD SIZE: 129.42 MB

TOTAL TRACKS 8

1. Earthboogie – Broken Rules Arrangement (Original Mix) (07:56) / Cmin, 107bpm
2. Earthboogie – High Minded Man (Original Mix) (07:04) / Bmin, 119bpm
3. Earthboogie – Human Call (Original Mix) (09:50) / Bmaj, 123bpm
4. Earthboogie – Northern Light (Original Mix) (03:43) / D♯min, 122bpm
5. Earthboogie – Overground (Original Mix) (07:22) / Emaj, 118bpm
6. Earthboogie – The Getaway (Original Mix) (07:03) / F♯min, 124bpm
7. Nina Miranda, Earthboogie – Silken Moon feat. Nina Miranda (Original Mix) (07:14) / A♯min, 120bpm
8. Nina Miranda, Earthboogie – Stargazin’ feat. Nina Miranda (Original Mix) (05:36) / Amin, 122bpm

Total Playtime: 00:55:48 min

It’s rare to come across a debut album that delights and surprises in equal measure, but that’s exactly what you can expect from Human Call, the first full-length excursion from daydreaming dancefloor fusionists Earthboogie.

The East London-based duo of Izaak Gray and Nicola Robinson has previous form when it comes to creating beautiful, funk-fuelled fusions of soundsystem-ready rhythms, humid instrumentation and intergalactic audio explorations. To date, they’ve released a pair of fine EPs on Leng, both of which did a splendid job in showcasing their unique musical vision.

Even so, this vision has never been clearer than it is on Human Call, a vibrant eight-track missive that fixes the sticky tropical cheeriness of African and South American dance music – be it Afro-disco, Afro-funk or samba – with a wide range of complimentary sounds, styles and influences, from spacey analogue electronics, sun-kissed Balearica and hazy West Coast jazz-rock, to chunky dub disco, snappy retro-futurist house and bouncy, dub-fuelled club workouts.

Throughout, Gray and Robinson showcase an impressive level of musicianship, variously combining crunchy drum machine hits and dusty old synthesizers with razor-sharp electric and acoustic guitars, rich bass, cascading saxophone solos and hazy, life-affirming vocal harmonies.

The result is a string of memorable highlights, from the sticky tropical-house-meets-dub disco futurism of “Human Call” and fuzzy disco-funk righteousness of opener “Overground”, to the post-punk disco jauntiness of “Stargazing” and samba-infused dancefloor bliss of Nina Miranda collaboration “Silken Moon”. Cheery, absorbing, imaginative and hugely entertaining, Human Call offers a perfect snapshot of Earthboogie’s distinctive musical world.