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Could it be so simple? Yes, it can, DVS1 says on Love Under Pressure. It's producer Zak Khutoretsky's debut bow on Derrick May's legendary Transmat imprint, and he takes after the celebrated producer with clean lines, propulsive beats and an ear for the dramatic. What else do you need? May made his name on the formula before quitting to become a full-time High Tech Soul DJ evangelist. Plenty have followed in his footsteps since. DVS1 is no different. And, yet, he is.

Khutoretsky's synths on Love Under Pressure are fuller, rounder, more vibrant. It's as though he's taken all of the energy that someone like Ricardo Villalobos puts into the micro and pours it into the macro. Both of the melodies that drive the two tracks here positively sing, pushing and pulling the drums to keep the pace. Hi-hats tick excitedly, bells quiver like jellyfish, static cuts through the air like a knife. It's the flipside to Berghain's raw techno, reveling in how absolutely empty the space behind the music can be. As Ben Klock's recent mix on which "Pressure" features proves, though, techno is a circle—not a straight line. It fits in perfectly with a set from one of the genre's finest DJs because good music is good music, no matter the sound. It's just that simple.


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Todd L. Burns
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Wed, 30 Jun 2010



Tracklist: DVS1 - Love Under Pressure EP

A Polyphonic Love
B Pressure


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Polyphonic Love -
A dark and twisted track that takes the listener on a bit of a journey in to the land of the lost. One may imagine a dark, and dusty early morning filled with soft strobes echoing in the corner and heavy feet... just trying to push on for dawn.

A smooth bassline is the lead for this deep and dirty dance-floor love affair, full of soft transitions into rapid fire high-hats and reverberated-off-timed claps to offer just the perfect amount of change that keep you tied to the evolving bassline.

The key elements of this track are pushed then pulled over and over while anticipation builds and builds for a climax. What gives this track appeal is that the climax is never fully reached, allowing the listener/dancer the freedom to just lose themselves in the sound.

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Pressure - A comfortingly numb look at the future of deep dance music. The subtleties and patients of DVS1's music is a main factor in his style.

To sum up Pressure... It swaddles and caresses you in sound. Pressure fits as DVS1's most textured tracks to date with a sweet bell-chime organ sound that is ever present in the entirety of the song changing ever so slightly, followed and added to by text book perfect 808/909 programming. The real mood and depth of this song comes from the emotional pressure of its bassline, which doesn’t even show itself until you're well into the groove. Pressure needs to be played loud and heavy to truly understand the resonance and power of this track!!