The Argentine DJ and producer creates a richly mesmerizing collection of house tracks on ‘Visions’ EP.
Nico Purman digs the build, starting off with standard house beats, then folding in layers and layers of detail like a pastry chef. As a result, the songs on ‘Visions’ are listenable in the headphones or on the dancefloor. Let this one rip at summer house parties and you will find people either bobbing their heads or dancing.
Opening track “It’s All About,” starts with a slightly uptempo house beat, then comes in with an electro bassline, synth washes and other atmospherics for 6 minutes 25 seconds, just long enough to find the groove, but short enough to keep it fresh. Purman’s sound on “It’s All About” is more techno than house, and that’s certainly a relief in the last few years of house and disco.
The techno rhythms continue early in on “Home2Home” before they are dipped in swirls of synthesizers, followed by a huge beat drop at 2:08, which fills the field of sound with bass. This one’s much more of a club track than “It’s All About,” but no less interesting to the casual electronic music listener.
“Rize” begins with Detroit Techno arpeggios atop a disco beat, and generally stays very Detroit. Around 4:30 Purman opens up the sound a bit, playing with oscillators, filters and mod wheels before letting the beat lead the song home, back into the techno bleeps and blops whence it came.
The EP’s closer is “Kosmik.” The song does its title proud, saturated as it is with a shifting field of sounds, giving it a distinctly French Touch feel by way of the cosmic electro-hop of Newcleus, especially their song “Cyborg Dance.”
