Joe Babylon – Solitude

Label: Roundabout Sounds – RS020
Format: 2 x Vinyl, 12", Album, Stereo
Country: US
Released: Sep 18, 2023
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Deep House

US-based producer Joe Babylon has been steering his own Roundabout Sounds through some lovely deep house waters over the last few years. Now the producer steps up to deliver his debut album.

Babylon is something of a veteran having co-founded Plug Research back in 1994 and hosted underground events in Los Angeles during the mid '90s. Following on from outings alongside the likes of Rick Wilhite and Rondenion he now brings his own dusty, carefully disheveled house sounds to the fore.

They have been crafted using an MPC which gives them their rough-edged appeal and they go from heads down back room joints to dubbed-out minimalism via dream late-night reveries. It makes for a fresh take on a tried and tested house template.

'Solitude' is a deft deep house album, reminiscent of the output of Smallville regulars STL and Christopher Rau. TIP!

A1. Roundabout Fu_k
A2. Idle Chatter
B1. Right Now
B2. The Convo
C1. House You
C2. Muse Me
C3. Mini Muse
D1. Los Gatos
D2. Feed The FM
D3. Blood Music