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Requiem For The Body

by Octo Octa

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A1.Requiem For The Body (Version One) 06:22 video
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A2.Requiem For The Body (Version Two) 06:59
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B1.Times Two (Loose Version) 04:49
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When Home 05:46
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The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music (2015)
"For six years, Octo Octa has been releasing gorgeous house music with a playfully throwback feel. Her 2013 album "Between two selves" felt like a milestone musically but it also alluded to her process with gender identity without her publicly adressing the issue. There's been a new confidence and comfortableness to her productions & DJ sets since she openly came out as transgender - perhaps due to the fact that she is no longer between two selves. Having released on 100% silk, Argo and Gerd Janson's Running Back, she makes a move towards prolific french label SKYLAX RECORDS. All three tracks on her latest release are incredible - perfect for those eyes closed on the dancefloor moments. The opener "Aimless" lulls you into a trance state with hypnotic 303 arpeggios before kicking you awake with the force of "Alt dusk" whose menacing bassline invites you in to what should become one of the biggest dancefloor stompers this year"

New to the Stay Underground It Pays gang, the eighth release on the label comes from none other than Octo Octa ! You know him from his prolific run on 100% Silk, and more recently for his EP on Gerd Janson's Running Back label at the top of the year. The man from Brooklyn serves up 4 slices of that U.S. experimental house sound we love so much. On the A side, we have two versions of Octo Octa's melancholic title track, Requiem for the Body. Both as good as the other, it's gonna be split for a lot of listeners on which is better. While both versions share certain elements, the second plays down the long keys of the first versions in favour of some stabby chord patterns. Either way, proper 4 a.m. business!On the flip, we get a bit more ethereal with Times Two (Loose Version). Simple yet effective, this one has a lot of atmosphere with those delayed vocal cuts over that late 80s bassline. Closing out the record is When Home. This one is a bit of a stomper at first until it brings in the lighter synth elements halfway through. Someone, somewhere will have an epiphany listening to this track. If it's you reading this, send in the results on the back of a postcard. All in all, another killer release that feels straight at home in the Stay Underground It Pays catalogue.

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released August 25, 2015

Producer – Hardrock Striker
Written and produced – Maya Bouldry-Morrison
Lacquer Cut By – Mathieu Berthet
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Skylax records
Copyright (c) – Skylax records
Pressed By – MPO

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