Marek Hemmann - In Between

At least two affairs in Polish politics have died down since the last time an album consisting of a couple of house tracks gave me as much joy, as the debut LP from Marek Hemmann did. Released on the German Freude An Tanzen label, which has been present on the market for over a decade now.
It’s not a superb piece of work, nor defining the genre anew. It’s a collection of perfectly produced unpretentious tracks. For every one of them the young producer from Gera had a plainly explicit idea, which he apparently manages to realize, because all of the tracks are simply working, causing a state where writing about this album while listening to it is not an easy job. Is this not the best recommendation for an album of dance music?
I would be very careful with using the term ‘tech house’ in order to describe the content of ‘In Between’, because it would be a little unfair. Mostly from the fact that not every producer associated with it reaches out for cheerful sounds of trumpet (‘Kaleido’), or saxophone (‘Gemini’). I will certainly not intend to destroy Marek’s hard work insistently trying to categorize it.
Not many albums rouse you from the chair without falling into cheap dance floor chase. On ‘In Between’ there are no unnecessary experiments with the structure of the tracks, none of them is too complex, yet every single one is full of life and pulsing with a very distinct energy. Nothing feels forced, in fact the exact opposite – you can sense the actual joy of composing, so rarely seen nowadays, which spreads directly to the listener.