lucca - towers

my introduction to lucie kvasnicová aka dj lucca came through paul van dyk as the umek remix of "mirage" was heavily cained. soon after heard chris cowie's remix and preferred it to that but i quite liked the works coming from this czech dj & producer. it was a mix of funky techno and quite popular big room sound and also the not quite trance but not quite techno sound. in the beginning it did sound a bit like cowie's brand of techno as they collaborated on a few records but the sound was changed further on and i started to lose interest in the music.

not because it stopped sounding like chris cowie but it started to go into the direction of say deadmau5 and "8th note tech-house" and the "trendhouse" of the mid and late noughties. needless to say i was never a fan of that sound and spent way to much time trying to knock some sense into people using the world electro in the wrong context. after a while, i want to say that i stopped caring about the loss of the descriptions of that genre, but if you've read my blog prior you would know that is bullshit. i still yammer on about what real such and such genre is even though it's isn't as didactic like in this entry.

regardless of that i do try to focus my protest by focusing on good music by the persons at hand and i have a few favourites by lucca. "mirage" i've already mentioned but also "t-gnosia", "manila" and this track "towers". came out on kvasnicová's own sound of acapulco label and is a stunning driving funky techno groove. it's great set buildup material and constructed with it's the layer upon layer technique.

starts with a muddy bassline, a kick and a faint percussion loop and it goes on from there. it does use quite livid percussive elements that does what bring to mind that latin loop techno sound of the early 00's but the focus is shifted to the bassline and the groove. as the bassline gets more defined with additional layers, the track also seem to set the direction that it's not up top where the action is.

there isn't a missed point in this track in where the small drops makes sense. the two bigger breaks builds the right amount of tension and gives out some release even though it continues building on. great stuff.

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