Dick Drone: Engine Room EP
01. Engine Room (Little Nobody Remix)
02. Engine Room (DJ Hi-Shock Remix)
03. Engine Room (2008 Refurbishment)
04. Kiss Kiss (Original Mix)
05. Picture Tube (Original Mix)
Engine Room, the stunning track produced by Tokyo-based Dick Drone five years ago, has been given a wildly engaging 2008 renovation, Sydney versus Tokyo style.
Little Nobody goes for a tech-acid injection that’s funky enough to move the most wizened of house music clubbers, and eclectic enough to satisfy the more discerning trainspotting set.
DJ Hi-Shock’s mix is stadium-deep and spacious, with a breakdown half way through that truly stomps. It’s like powerful, old-skool warehouse rave acid techno mixed and matched with Robert Hood or Jeff Mills, and is one of the highlights here.
By contrast, Dick Drone’s 2008 Refurbishment brings it all back to earth. It’s a slowly building, gritty, mesmerizing tech/electro track - with kitsch warnings about the evils of Communism thrown in for good measure.
Kiss Kiss is infectious, minimal tribal tech-house, gradually slipping in layers and weaving around you like a welcoming cocoon, and would work wonders on an up-for-it dancefloor.
As a closer, Picture Tube tweaks the analogues, and enters upon a terrain someone like Aphex Twin would feel quite at home on. Think dubstep mixed with eclectic beats and glitches and a soundscape to die for.
Styles: Techno, Minimal, Tech House, Electro House, Acid, Breaks, Electronica
Feedback so far:
"very nice productions on DJ Hi-Shock's remix"
- Cevin Fisher (Subversive/NYC, USA)
"The 2008 Refurbishment is excellent. Very simple, minimal, and eerie. DJ Hi-Shock's mix took me right back to Tresor Club here in the 1990's."
- Helmut Schmidt a.k.a. "O" (Berlin, Germany)
"Hi Shock has got that heavy tech sound from a few years back and Lil Nobody has some interesting pitch efx and things..."
- Tom Solo (Invisible DJs, USA)
"The Engine Room mixes are deep and driven, DJ Hi-Shock remix is a belter of a track!"
- Ben Mill (Bitch Shift, Melbourne)
"A dark, brooding and delightful reminder of everything thats good about electronic music"
- D. Baldwin (Canberra, Australia)
"Great to see this release happening. The mixes are fantastic!! Diverse things always makes me happy."
- DJ Milkcrateman (SAn Francisco, USA)
"Rocking!"
- DJ Jamie Lavell (Hong Kong)
"I'm diggin it' - I like the beats you come up with; reminds me of the old days. I'm diggin' the stuff you put out - thumbs up, one awesome remix."
- Noisepsalm (Dead Channel crew, Sacramento - USA)
"Nice to see this track resurface. The production on new mixes is very, very cool"
- Yusuke Abe (TTAK Collective - Tokyo, Japan)
"weird but nice - 3.0 / 5"
- Dingle (Homegrown/Obtango Clubnites/ Northern Ireland)
"Very chunky beats throughout release.- 3.0 / 5"
- Dirty [M] (USA)