Jeroen started releasing music back in the mid-90s under several artist names, before founding his own underground imprint “search records". After more than 20 releases, that label closed and he continued putting out material on different imprints, notably “Grammar” and Pacou’s old “LL” label.He started a collaboration called “Counterpart” with Dimi Angelis and was signed to Jeff Mills Axis Records (both as Counterpart and solo), Audiosculpture Records and Steracs Ion Records.The A side starts with some tightly sequenced offbeat sounds before a big, rolling 909 beat kicks in to accompany the light filtered piano-like theme sound. Like “carrot-and stick” the complimentary elements both please the ear and pacing relentlessly at the same time. B1 takes a more mellow approach with harp-like sounds and shining strings. This track immediately caught the attention of DJs when played out from CDR at Tresor Berlin and Space Ibiza in 2007.Lastly, Pacou contributes a re-interpretation (not a direct remix), maintaining the style and direction of the single while adding a nice realminimal (ala Robert Hood) flavour.
|