Pablo Del Monte – Glide Over Here

New labels burst on to the scene all the time – but few of them tend to last the distance. One such label that definitely does seem to have the nous to go some distance is East Recordings, a new label with a sound palette that’s firmly pointed in the direction of tech-house planes. Their first two releases (the last of which came from label boss Pablo Del Monte) were indicative of their penchant for such sounds, and Pablo himself comes to the fore on the label’s latest, ‘’Glide Over Here’’. A cracking four-tracker, it sees Pablo take the reins for the original while a whole host of remixers do their thing on the rest of the EP.

We get going with the title track. A refined and solid house cut, it’s the sort of sweaty weapon that will make most sense during the course of the night’s peak-time hours. Catchy and hypnotic, there’s enough old school flavour in here to think it might have been released twenty years ago. The laughing sample evokes comparisons with Josh Wink’s ‘Don’t Laugh’, but this is a fun track that’s very much its own beast.

The first of the remixes come from Julius Papp, who brings the track towards a darker and less familiar place. We then sit through two other remixes, the best of which arrives courtesy of Thallulah and William Medagil, who join forces here with Jose Maria Ramon. Cleverly, they hold on to the melodic flourishes, and although we thought it might be, there’s no ’too many cooks’ issues on this one. After this we finish with DJ Vox’s filter remix, which does exactly what it says on the tin. We’re really digging this record: well done Pablo & co.

4 out of 5

Reviewed by Ian Fleming