My, this is a classy and very sexy hour and a half of music. Asadinho likes to let his music do the talking, and as a result not much is known about the Japanese producer save for his ability to craft some very sultry and compelling deep house music. As Bill Brewster says in his notes for the release, there’s no trace of ‘that boring noodly nonsense, but the stuff that has girls’ arms in the air’. We’re not stopping at the girls either! It’s really high level stuff where the beats are firm, the textures shimmer with the heat and the riffs nibble away at your brain, one replacing the other with an almost imperceptible smoothness. There’s no padding in these productions at all, as we move through some of Asadinho’s best remixes, of Wallflower, Harlem Knights, Mateo & Matos and Doc Martin, mixed with his own ‘Rouge’, with Robert Owens, and ‘Burnin’ Talk’ and ‘Transgression’, which both feature Natamiq. Perhaps inevitably the whole thing winds up with the heat soaked Lana del Rey reworking of ‘Summertime Sadness’. This is a sublime piece of work – right down to its format, a USB made from biodegradable materials. You can’t break this house music down though – it’s absolute quality.
