Gracias Especial, by 53x / Chez De Milo / Alphonse / Jamie Paton

Gracias Especial

by 53x / Chez De Milo / Alphonse / Jamie Paton

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1.	53X - Radar 05:42	buy track
2.	Chez De Milo - Kremer (Jamie Paton Remix) 09:31	buy track
3.	Alphonse - Raze Rave 07:28	buy track
4.	53X - Zen '23 (Jamie Paton Remix) 07:00	buy track

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[Emotional] Especial reaches a true landmark with its 50th release. Started in 2012 as a dancier, trippier, club friendly spin off, sub label to Emotional Response, it has gone on to forge a path, releasing a myriad of artists including the opening release by Jamie Paton (Cage & Aviary / ESP Institute) to Richard Sen (Bronx Dogs), the debut of Khidja (Malka Tuti / DFA) on to unearthing the breaks masters Alphonse (Klasse Wrecks) and Junior Fairplay (Crimes Of The Future), the uplifting Italo influenced Lauer (Robert Johnson), the new wave anthem remixes of Sfire (and Sophie) by Kris Baha (CockTail D’amore) and INHALT (Dark Entries), the NYC pop-rave-vox of Kim Ann Foxman, through to showcasing upcoming artists like Berlin’s Giraffi Dog (Aiwo Recs) and the global acid adventures of Akio Nagase (Chill Mountain) to most recently, the slo-mo trance muscle of 53X and post-rave uplighters of Remotif (Space Lab) and DJ 1985.

As with every 10th release on the label, here is a various artists “Showcase” of what and where the label is, featuring exclusive music by 53x and Alphonse, plus special remixes by label mainstay, Jamie Paton.

And so, it is recent signing, 53X who opens Gracias Especial with the bounce of Radar. Finland’s Jonne Lydén debut EP on Especial, Zen ’23 came out of nowhere, more than simply riding a zeitgeist of the “Trance Revival”, his all live analogue symphonies drop the bpms, presenting widescreen beats, darkroom bass, sirens and tripped out vox all mixed to propel a singularly driven sound.

Taking things much deeper has been the hallmark of Jamie Paton’s remixes for the label. As well as providing the opening EP in 2013, art direction and designing every Especial sleeve and producing 20 remixes and counting (another 2) for the label here, it’s impossible not to associate Especial and Jamie’s music. First, he reworks rising star DJ, but recent break out producer Chez De Milo, with a trademark dub excursion that take the ethnic origins of Kremer to a Space Echo wonderland. Space is indeed the place, the lulling beats, see you falling through the gaps, a true dub style.

Alphonse makes a rightful return to Especial, with Raze Rave highlighting the allusive producers’ unique understanding of the varied history of rave culture via a techno-suite of soundscapes, perfecting mixing uplifting breaks, memory inducing vocal samples and dub bass, with a nod to the pop sensibility that rave encompassed, while being that allusive “lost chord” moment of man and machine.

The finale returns to the trance acid expanse of 53x, with the mastery of label stalwart Jamie Paton. An apt marriage, Paton takes the title cut from Lydén’s debut EP and crafts another (e)special durge-dub, where TB303 and Space Echo intertwine with the De Witte vocal, hinting at touches of dub, new wave, trance and acid house all in one melting pot, the label optimistically termed “Protoid” back at inception of summer 2013.

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