Vanguard - Oysters In The Half Shell EP (2011) Review

Helo, once again I'm here, bored like last time, so I decided to make this review of this amazing 4 track long EP by Welsh duo 'Vanguard' released on the label 'Work It Baby' in June of 2011!

The EP itself has a really funky vibe, making it sound like a mashup between the vibe of Fred Falke's track 'When I Look Into Your Eyes' and Vanguard's funky filtered synth-driven sound!

Gonna try my best to review all the 4 tracks now lool

Loving Someone Else:

First of all, the filtered chords featured in this track fit REALLY good with the vocal sample of Street Fare's song 'If The Phone Don't Ring', the drop is just PERFECT, the very punchy sidechain used really gives it the funkiness it was needing!!!

Long Beach:

Track is really good! The Klique sample with the filtered chords really give a funky vibe mashed up!

I personally prefer the demo version over the released one since it's more punchy but they're both great! 

Mount Helicon:

This track has an overall really happy vibe and a really funky second drop around the 1:36 minute mark!

I LOVE the bass / bassline on this one, it's just so perfected that it gives the track even more funkiness!

Olympic:

What else can I say???? The chords from the start are just lovely, the track really has a very nice feeling to it, the vocoder gives it the sort of emotional touch / feeling to the track with the background plucked synth, it's just amazing, truly is one of the best EP closers I've ever heard from a French House release.

Easily a 10/10 EP in my opinion, it just has the perfect amount of everything!

Les Années Folles - Limousine Trip EP (2010) Review

Elo I'm so bored that I decided to make this review lool

Note that I'm really bad at this and it's my first time trying to do it BAAHAHHAAA

Les Années Folles is a French duo consisting of Balatron & Hyppolite, they were only active on MySpace in 2010!

The EP contains 4 songs (Limousine Trip, Jet Trip, Hctay & Yacht) which are ALL bangers!!

Now uhhh I'm gonna try my best to review these tracks

Limousine Trip:

This track has a really happy vibe, especially cause of the funkiness and complexity behind the production of the original song, something also to note is the compression on this track, it is ON POINT!!!, literally the perfect amount of it for a very funky track!

Track samples Change - Paradise

Jet Trip:

The sample on this one is just PERFECTION!! Their chopping style reminds me a bit of The Phantom's Revenge 2008-2011 works on this one, drums are very compressed from what I can hear, but i still don't really know how it sounds without the low quality mp3 compression since the track in it's original quality is still not found after all these years.

Hctay:

Even tho I don't like tracks that use samples that were overused, this is a really good flip of Change's 'Miracles'!, I don't really have anything else to say about this one lmao.

Yacht:

Same case and sample as Hctay, it's another good flip of Change's 'Miracles', and once again, I don't really have anything else to say about this one.

What a shit review!!!!