Electro House Recommendations April 2011

Review: Despite his young years, Alex Ridha now stands as highly respected member of the electronic community - a go-to man if you will - and here he teams up with fellow Berliner Housemeister, part of his ever expanding label's roster. An insistent kick-snare combo builds up "Shizzo" with some subtle almost-Prodigy style crunchiness to the synths which rise and distort almost beyond control until they fall back into a dark sweat-drenched 3am groove. The abrasive synths coupled with the white noise builds mark this as a halfway house between the electro house BN is known for and Chirs Liebing style stadium techno. This shares the A Side with "nBaxx", with sparse ping pong percussion twisted around a broken beat, occasional rave stabes and cleverly chopped female vox. "Saturday" greedily hogs the whole flipside, with Housemesiter and Ridha opting for a stripped back Chicago house style vibe endowed with quirky bleeps, squeaks and sonic squiggles.