Producer Ryan Merry from San Francisco, better known as Ghosts on Tape, has founded a label together with a few friends (like Low Limit of Lazer Sword amongst others). The platform for his first own release in three years is Icee Hot. The title track of the same name is a worthy reference to early nineties Old-School-House, with warm and relaxed synth-lines, which are still driving without stagnating at any point. The following track, »No Go«, is the complete opposite: it quotes the sound of mighty industrial techno-parties with high tempo and thereby hits you in the head when coming straight from the previous track. Ghosts on Tape have the skills to authentically dive into different worlds of sound. The second half is all about remixes: Lando Kal (who will deliver the Icee Hot’s second release with »Let You In The Sky« soon) kicks it off. With the help of unusually gloomy and mysterious sounds, the producer, who also grew up in San Francisco, pounces on »Nature’s Law« and gives it a new perspective, which is softened sound-wise after two thirds of its playing time. Jus-Ed, on the other hand, only adds a few filters to the very same track, modifies the percussion and creates more of a tool than an actual revision, but his approach safely gets him over the finish line. After all, the song is of such high quality itself and it makes us expect great things from this label in the future.
Nature's Law
