Baruka - Play It Loud

Play A1 at -8, open the mid and high EQ's and go for the ultimate Techhouse feeling in its most original sense. This track combines the stomping, dirty rawness of the early 90's Benelux-Techno-House-Sound with a certain minimal aesthetic that sounds like M_nus in 2007, yet beating current preset minimal tunes by far. Surely one to make the crowd go outta their minds and a real collectors item if you take a look at the cover...

This 12" by Baruka is one of the most underrated vinyl productions to date. It features a sound that has to be described as the birth of Minimal Techno / Tech House long before its time. Featuring a lot of funk feel and slick groove programming and production.

Orlando Voorn probably had little idea of the magnitude of his Baruka project's "Play It Loud" when it was first released in the early 90s. Now the well-respected Monoïd label has released the track once again, this time with a wide array of remixes and updates. Not surprisingly, the original still stands head and shoulders above the pack, with an ever-changing, ever-twisted set of synth lines, and a sick bassline to underpin it all. Though the reworks are of consistent quality, one of the disappointments comes from the otherwise effective Sam Session, who gets a bit lazy and unfortunately even-handed in his version. It's worth the original and the alternative take alone. Play it LOUD.