Matthew Dear
Body Language Vol. 7

OK, let me get this of my chest straight away. I LOVE Matthew Dear. No, not like that, but I love his music. Asa Breed is one of my favourite albums from a contemporary electronic producer, in recent times and his labels Spectral Sound and Ghostly International consistently release excellent, forward thinking music. So, as you can probably imagine I was quite excited to receive the latest installment of Get Physical’s Body Language mix series, mixed by Mr Dear himself. In a nutshell, it’s great. It’s super. It’s ace. It’s a perfectly sequenced (somehow I don’t think this was done with records and turntables) mix that starts of slowly and atmospherically, lulling you into a relaxed state of mind before dropping the booty bombs. Kid Sublime, with the excellent Basement Works Vol 1 is up first, before we are off on a journey that takes in Johnny D, DJ Koze and man of the moment Seth Troxler. Dear manages to take a wide variety of producers and find within them a sound, that is actually more him than them. Don’t ask me how, but you can tell who put this together after 10 minutes of listening – who else can you say that about? (That’s rhetorical by the way.)