The first release comes from established house producer and Dutchman Ion Ludwig. Labels like Meander and Tenth Circle have released his reductive and minimalist jazzy brews before, and the man himself is soon to launch his own label.
Ahead of that though he serves up two new tracks for Tabla. The first is Spuren das Speed, a tightly woven tapestry of wonky synth lines bobbling beats. Up-lit by typically jazzy chords, it grows ever more out of itself, surging then receding and pulling you with it at every turn.
The remix comes from another exciting Dutch talent in the form of young Alex Jansen. He sees fit to pull everything back into a sunken deep house march. Sheets of steel seem to gentle whip and snap as the track rolls forwards with lasting feeling coming from the downbeat chords that dampen down the whole thing.
The second and final original from Ion Ludwig is stuffed with real world ambiance ?' the sound of a party going on in another room seems to form the backdrop as exquisitely designed and itchy hi hats shimmer in the foreground. Of course the whole thing is propped up by a chunky underside and when you listen closely, all manner of pattering toms, waify melodies and distant voices seem to hang in the air like smoke, drifting too and fro of their own accord.