TRACKLIST:   ROKAJ MILE FISCHAUGE THE PARROT MALA

you could listen release @ last.fm http://www.last.fm/music/Home+Boy/Rokaj+Mile+EP   or buy it at Beatport Home Boy - Rokaj Mile EP

INFO:

Croatian music company Home Made Electronica comes through with another fine release. This time it's the work of drummer/producer Marko Pelajic. A completely new sound or a Balkan's dialect of corresponding dance affection, you be the judge!

MALA sets an easy percussive but deep bass-heavy groove. Abstractly sliced vocals kick in and sound like someone's trying to say ..umm?.. something. But for our BOY it is a reflection of that place called HOME, where the girls are pretty and the bands' energy is driving your to the edge while the tree note chord shuffle keeps hitting all the right spots. This is it, a Balkan twist to a radical minimalistic approach, home cooked energy drink, best served with lots of volume to dancers in moistly dark places. Dissonant jazzy  plinks passage add more fun while the compact percussions mix never stops reminding us of grandmas' secret ingredients soup - always tasting sooo good. Ummm....

ROKAJ MILE roundhouse kicks a sub baseline deep into the floor and jacks it up . Very groovy, this track starts off somewhat dark and breaths' funk and Balkan soul. These sounds are Homeboy reminiscing back in the day when as a six year old he banged on cans trying to beat Lars Urlich or fire up Guns and Roses? There are noises and general weirdness going on, Herbert style, that MARKO showcased in the past with releases on Acedia and Minime. But this one is special. The baseline pumps the track and sounds like it ate the rest of the songs' arrangement and now there's quirky sounding sample leftovers going crazy in patterns only known to Marko and the people dancing to this. The snare, encouraged by a choppy uncivilized hihat give the track a sense of dirtiness and direction. No snobbish talk here, just a perfectly stripped sweetie of a groove. When the trippy vocal steps in, it's clear that this will be to delight of those who like music that crosses style borders but remains on the tangent of house.

FISCHAUGE is another deep bass and sliced funky vocal dish. An uplifting synth melody, tight rhythm pattern and lots of interplay between those two. On moments a bit abstract, this track doesn't loose structure and is perfect for building tensions up. With VITAMIN K defining what we call regressive, HOMEBOY takes it a step forward. These guys are on a mission and this track proves it. Keep reaching - hard-coded message of this one!

THE PARROT starts of with a driving combo of a kick drum and a one-note baseline. Soon to be joined by metalized straight hihat and deep progressive synth chord. A few minutes into the track you'll be overtaken deeply by the sense of the phrase "deep house". So comes the breakpoint, where a melody kicks in, again, bluesy pentatonic excursion overdubbed by what sounds like Sunday morning gospel, or a Russian astronaut ordering furniture. A blast into space, or your own place in the mind,  the Catch is to never stop dancing and you'll stay okay.

ABOUT ARTISTS

Marko, under his moniker HomeBoy, has came to critical acclaims accompanied by numerous reviews after producing acoustic drum'n'bass band BILK's debut album 'This BILK is radioactive'. Also working closely with DJ Sergej as one half of the Balkan acid duo Becari, Marko devoted time and effort to relentlessly move into a style of his own, which he simply calls techno, but the genres barriers oppose this individuals vision of club music. Obviously under the impression of his early age spent in Frankfurt and later on among thousands of ravers spread around dancefloors between Germany and Croatia, this release represents experience gained from the other side of the stage - while dancing in enjoyment of sounds shaping modern club culture.