Jonathan Hart

Highly respected Internet station ProtonRadio.com's Technical Ops Manager, Jonathan Hart developed a healthy obsession for electronic music at an early age, dabbling with both keyboards and computers in front of his curious peers Ultimately he was one of the key names who helped shape both the growth and sound of the station, leading it onto the online broadcasting success that it is becoming today.
Jonathan Hart's 'Vices', throws up a mutant of numerous sounds. Delving headlong into an upbeat 4/4 kick, 'Vices' drops crisp snares, punchy bongo percussion and a sampled male vocal. Stabby electrical sounding blips play against an equally electric and gritty sounding guitar noise which a few seconds later opens out into a full riff. Rising waves of drifting synth sounds oscillate, ascending to a peak before the whole track blasts into a tough and chunky overdrive. Morphing filtered disco-esque synths take over, adding an essence of late-night dancefloor sexiness, a sound which slowly becomes increasingly coloured as bubbling sounds dive around in the background.
The B side - the 'Montreal Nights Dub', Hart has decided to team up with a studio partner, Mark Omni, to deliver this version of 'Vices'. Omni's added influence over this track certainly shines through, offering an even more dubby and heady take on the original mix. Echoed bongos and shimmering synth sounds create an 'other-worldly' and slightly epic edge to the mix. However the production still retains a whole barrow-load of funk - delivering a deeper, sleazier and sexier feel, really summing up the track's title 'Vices' rather well. The 'Montreal Nights Dub' has a driving and funky groove which forms the crux of the whole mix, a sleekness that somehow differs to the sound that the original brings. Halfway through the underlying beat changes - surprisingly catching you off guard by swapping to a soft breakbeat, before 'Vices' reverts back to the 4/4 beat towards the latter part of the track.
With 'Vices' Jonathan Hart tempts us with a particularly potent and enticing production.

Dave Preston “One of the best peak time track of the year. Amazing first effort 9 out of 10”
Spesh “The Montreal Nights Vices Dub – Tune!!”

M8 review “Jonathan Hart makes an impressive debut with Vices, a peak time progressive number with cool synths…the Montreal Nights Vices dub, which builds subtly into an absolute monster of a track through simple but effective synths and a cool rolling bassline…this is a fine example of the sort of quality we can expect to see a lot more of from Alternative Route in the coming months” M7/M8