Sasse, James Flavour – Happy Ending EP
Artist: Sasse, James Flavour
Title: Happy Ending EP
Label: Statra Recordings
Released: 07.05.2010
Genre: Deep
Release Description:
Statra Recordings is back again in Deep House form with a spring forward EP by dirty Tuesday dons Sasse & James Flavour. Rumor has it that the guys met back at the beginning of the decade on the tennis courts of Friedrichshain Volkspark in Berlin and challenged each other to numerous sudden death shootout matches, but rather than either throwing a Mcinroe-esque fit, they finished drinking sect and eating pizza at James flat lat into the night, while delving jamming out to deep house. Thus the foundation of what will turn into one of the greatest production partnerships of the 21st century was formed.Fitting well into the sonic mould that Statra Twelves had made in the early 2000s, The Happy Ending EP is laden with swirling aquatic synth pads and grooves that will cause the dance floors to throb and melt. The EP begins with Comfort Zone awash with basic channel-esque amtmospherics, micro-sliced vocal stabs and pulsating sub bass, which coalesce into the ultimate in modern house sensibility. Next up, the EPs namesake tune Happy Ending, is cut from a fine silky early 90s house cloth. With its jazzy smooth chord stabs and spacious, smoothly punctuated drum programming, one could easily mistake this tune for some lost gem straight from the Paper Recordings vaults. To round things out and add of bit of Brooklyn grit, Statra tapped BK Co-inhabitant and long time pal Anthony Parasole for the remix duty. Parasole has been busy at work w/ Levon Vincent on their shared label endeavor Deconstruct, as well his House n Home Monthly event and DJing as member of the UQ collective. On the Mix, Anthony strips the tune of all accoutrement, pushes the kick to the an almost distorting grit level, and warps the vocal through a subway tunnel frenzy of echoed delay. The result is a monster dark and deep dance floor destroyer in an utterly deconstructed sense.
01. Sasse, James Flavour – Comfort Zone (Original Mix)
02. Sasse, James Flavour – Happy Ending (Original Mix)
03. Sasse, James Flavour – Happy Ending (Anthony Parasole Mix)
