Dave DK - Chicama EP

Label: Pampa Records – PAMPA 034
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM, Stereo
Country: Germany
Released: Jun 2019
Genre: Electronic
Style: Deep House

Dave DK arrives on Pampa with Chicama — three tracks of kicking, bumping house music that balance euphoric percussive energy with a hint of alluring gloominess, the dancefloor and the unsettling occupying the same space without contradiction. It is a record that moves the body and slightly unnerves the mind, which is precisely where the most interesting house music has always lived.

Jelly Legs opens the A-side with warm, kicking bass and a voice from somewhere deep and close simultaneously — the floor demanding its sacrifice and getting it. The B-side delivers El Point and the title track Chicama in quick succession, metallic sounds blazing from the speakers, percussive elements clattering and rattling with the loose, physical energy of bodies in motion. Cops and coppers dissolving into liquid on the dancefloor. Three tracks built for all day and all of the night, from a producer who understands that euphoria and gloom are not opposites but close companions — and that the best club music holds both at once.