- The Wisdom Teeth boss lands on Aus Music with quirky house and UK garage.
- There's a lightness to K-LONE's music, even at its danciest, though it's hardly flimsy. You can hear this best on "Wait 4 U," with its clipped, chipmunk vocals and microscopically chopped horns. It's almost cutesy—with a hint of the mnml influence that has found its way into some of the recent work on his Wisdom Teeth label—but like titanium, it's both lightweight and extremely sturdy. All four tracks on Catching Wild, Pt. 1, the first in a two-part series on UK house institution Aus Music, strike this balance, focusing on the wonderfully fertile patch between house and UK garage.
"Give It Up" is the potential festival banger here, with its Chicago-inspired pads, watery sound effects and mushmouthed vocal. Like many recent summer hits, it's both chilled-out and insistent. "Own Way" offers a typically cheeky twist on the swung house template with an elastic, dive-bombing bassline contrasted by synth chords that are bevelled to a chrome finish. The weirdest track is "What I Want," which sounds like a miniature jazz band vamping along to house music, with a zig-zagging bassline and a generally floaty vibe. Quirky yet perfectly functional, Catching Wild, Pt. 1 shows how the Wisdom Teeth ethos can translate over to straightforward house records without losing what makes it unique in the first place.
Tracklist01. Give It Up
02. Wait 4 U
03. What I Want
04. Own Way