Romansoff – Forbidden Land EP

Juno Review

Romansoff is Romania's prime craftsman of raw, gritty house that breaks away from the country's traditional minimal sound, and leans over into the more LIES sort of territory. His Raw Tools label has been successful ever since the first pellet came out in 2013, but he's up on Signal Code this time, and the dude has moulded three absolutely grooving licks. "Forbidden Land" is a contained, pad-heavy house mutant made of you to stretch the sets out to their very limits, and the Privacy remix breaks the 4/4 up and delivers a retro sort of electro vibe. On the flip, "Drone" is a pure house muscle, the sort of tune that contains kick-drums able to shake a dance floor up in an instant, whereas "Pardon My Behaviour" stutters and glitches its house magic all over the shop thanks to a very tight, and jam-packed groove. Classy house cuts.