The Strictly Jaz Unit - The Tempest
Deep House
The Strictly Jaz Unit
The Tempest
£33.99
Free shipping over £100
Track List
-
"Tempestuous"(8:30)
-
"Near The End"(7:12)
-
"Time Of Speed Not Day"(8:02)
-
"The Struggle"(6:38)
-
"Heard Syndrome"(9:03)
-
"That Hour"(7:49)
-
"The Flat (London Projects)"(9:51)
-
"Passing You By"(8:24)
Review
Astonishingly, 23 years have passed since Glenn Underground and Boo Williams established the Strictly Jaz Unit project, a fluid collective of underground Chicago deep house producers. These days, SJU mainly operates as a duo, and it was this stripped-back line-up that produced "The Tempest", a rare album-length outing bristling with quality cuts. As a whole, the album is far more intergalactic, electronic and sci-fi sounding than either man's solo productions, with just a few hints of the luscious instrumentation and swinging grooves associated with their previous work. There's no dip in quality, though, with the dubbed-out deep house hypnotism of "Heard Syndrome", the Patrick Cowley/Giorgio Moroder influenced "The Struggle", the Chicago-goes-Yorkshire bleep flex of "Time of Speed, Not Day" and acid-fired gorgeousness of "The Flat (London Projects)" standing out.
Review originally published by Juno.
You may also be interested in
