Posted on Feb 3, 2014
Dale Middleton is next up on SexOnWax with a euphoric 2-tracker – So Much More opens with muted arpeggio’d synths, drawing breath further into the track and building to a large breakdown, while Audit & Purge lays a solid grooving bassline and slowly raises the excitement throughout. Label boss Omid 16B adds an edit of So Much More to round out the release. Buy Link: http://www.beatport.com/track/so-much-more-omid-16b-edit/5111774...
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Posted on Oct 28, 2013
Another big release from the Alola vaults gets the Omid 16B Edit refresh, this time the smooth disco vibes of OTC’s ‘Get On Up’ – a thick bass foundation underlies the groove, with accents of flute and wah guitar for maximum effect....
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Posted on Oct 21, 2013
Omid 16B’s SexOnWax imprint returns with the ‘Indian Ocean EP’ – both his edit and prolific artist Andy Slate’s original mean business from the off, with tribalesque percussion communicating incessantly, summoning the Sun to rise again ‘What You Need’ lives up to its name, stripping the audio right back to the essentials, the intoxicated layers of question-and-answer rhythmic choreography segueing elegantly into the final cut on the EP, DIRTYHERTZ’s take on ‘Indian Ocean’, a more uptempo envisioning of the track, replete with swirling sawtooth synth stabs and an almost sonar-like pulse throughout...
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Posted on Oct 21, 2013
Omid 16B, boss of the Alola label and someone who has released exciting and unpredictable music on labels like Tsuba, Bedrock and SexOnWax. His remix is more spangled and physical than the original, featuring plenty of ghoulish voices and hard hitting drums that work themselves and listeners into a deep, controlled and Detroit inspired frenzy. There’s also a dub version for the even more abstract dancefloors out there that is just as essential....
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Posted on Oct 7, 2013
Building on their superb release this summer on Alola Records, Voodoo Corporation are back, this time on the SexOnWax imprint, with an expansive, laid-back sultry house jaunt – brooding staccato rhythmic bass tones duck and weave through spoken words, synth pads and disembodied pitched vocal flashes in the original, with label head Omid 16B adding to proceedings with his edit...
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Posted on Aug 19, 2013
Alola continues it’s hectic summer release schedule with this superb package from Vanilla Ace Re-invigorating and revitalising a warmly remembered hook from the 80s, ‘Your Body’s infectious groove is retained while being brought bang up to date for today’s dance floors, with an Omid 16B edit to boot With a nod to the heady days of New Jack Swing, ‘I Can Ride’ is another surefire club weapon, with a dub included for maximum flexibility....
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