Beat Connection - Surf Noir

Reed and Jordan are two awesomely nice, hard working, hard partying guys.  I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited for any and everything they do.  I never heard their production chops until now, and I still have to say, this is damn good.  Damn good.  The newspapers and vast interwebs seem to agree with me, too.  

Surf Noir opens with beach sounds apropos of the title.  Then comes the surf rock guitar riff.  Then the amen break; the chillest amen break you’ve ever heard.  High tide finally reaches that funky multicolor dance floor from Saturday Night Fever.  Many dance sensibilities are introduced in like fashion to your beach hangout groove on this mostly-instrumental album.  The two tracks with vocals are awesome, though, especially “In the Water,” which KEXP seems to love (holy air-play, batman!).  Since by now you’ve probably downloaded the whole thing for free, I can already hear you people scrambling to figure out the word you’re going to put in the “genre” field in your music player:

IDMwave?  Relaxobeat?  Browave?  Stop.  Please stop.

Who am I kidding, though?  Go ahead.  This is a gripe for another day.  But, I’m watching you, genre-heads…

NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY