Bozzwell

Bozzwell

Firm

2008-06-30

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Firing out some electrifying dancefloor lasers from his launch pad in Sheffield, David Bozzwell releases this self-titled 12” on Cologne’s Firm recordings. “Marlenes Eyes” and “Fionas Song” send you slipping off into a private dancefloor daydream, sleek and finely tailored microhouse anglosaxonotron arrangements, with a remix of “Fionas Song” on the flip side from long time Kompakt affiliate Dirk Leyers.

A hypnotic shuffly beat immersed in bouncy deep synths lays the framework for “Fionas Song”, with Bozzwell’s spoken vocals like a disco prophet appearing in the blinding disco lights. The bassline bubbles and the weighty throbs dodge and duck to create a danceable serenity, perfect for a reality flash during those never ending benders. “Marlenes Eyes” is similarly adorned with intergalactic images, marble bleeps and metallic halos with Bozzwell’s vocals sung more overtly in the direction of Planet Pop and not really quite attaining the atmo ‘Fionas Song’ creates.

Entrancing enough to make your bedroom seem like the dancefloor and the dancefloor like your bedroom.

Dirk Leyer’s remix is a plusher extension of the deeper sounding house sentiments found in the original, the upturned bassline contrasts with a hazier arrangement and draws out that strangely pleasant lonely raver feeling a little bit further.

That little bit harder, deeper and darker than the fast-becoming bland diet of lite minimal techno, (though probably not pleasing electronic purists with the vocals) what Bozzwell does succeed in doing is constructing plush constellations, spacious and entrancing enough to make your bedroom seem like the dancefloor and the dancefloor like your bedroom.