ASA 808 Woke and Love Trumps Fear on TOYS Berlin | The Electro Review

ASA 808
Woke / Love Trumps Fear
TOYS Berlin
TBR: 14th September


Lighting the way to a future EP, generously stuffed with more than average minutes, ASA 808 marks the occasion with a splendid double A side. Comprising of everything in the house to make music for its namesake, unusual elements such as reverse recorded guitars and old-school basslines engineered from the ground up make this something worth listening to. Maybe we need to be acclimatised to their modern edge before the delicious dollop on the grapevine.


Created over the summer last year, and painstakingly mastered by Atjazz, the white knuckle ride of releasing new music has been worth the drawn out approach. DJs from the floors that count are already using Woke in their playlist, it's been heard from the decks of Whitesquare, George Fitzgerald, Avalon Emerson, and many others. The track begins with a euphoric synth string that crafts a sneaking journey through harmonising tones. A light drum-score adds a seasoning of rhythm to the abstract pulsation of the melodics which builds nicely into a jumble of bass, snare, hat rolls, and a vocal uh! Fruity bass melodies form a chunky and stepped cliff-face of sound that gives a pleasant viewing spot for the frolicking house flow that fills the sky.


The anthem for Love that is Love Trumps Fear begins on a wobbling bass tone and solid kick drum. The bass increases in pressure, surging in electronically metered wavelengths. In the distance, an angelic howling whispers in from the corners and slowly fills the sound-space like it was an empty cup. The intensity builds further, this time from the top end, and subtle drums add the clarity of progression like wingbeats. Uplifting and pleasant, both of these tracks take the greatness from high energy music and add the delicious river of musical smoothness that keeps everything under the lid.

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