Artist: wAFF
EP: Fat Gash
Label: Hot Creations
Release date: 06/04/15
It's mystic, experimental and it'll hit you at 3am in a dark, sweaty room with colossal speakers blasting out a bucketful of noise...it's Fat Gash. Named after a mate not a body part, Fat Gash coasts on a wave of echoey symbols and ricocheting snares, culminating in a much anticipated drop at the 2:30 mark, making way for murky, lethargic, imposing vocals. If the track's anything to go by, I want to meet his friend.
Shabby takes a deeper, darker twist...if Fat Gash gets you hyped for crashing white noise in Connected, the third contribution on his EP, then this track leads you on the broody, interweaving path there. Distorted, filtered and mischievous synths offer an unlikely contrast to the rest of the sounds on the EP, making re-appearances throughout the track and playing hide and seek with the low, dirty sub-bass - wAFF's certainly come a long way from his first EP, 'Rainbow'.
Driving snares compel you to move in wAFF's third offering; with an abundance of energy and a cool grove that doesn't disappoint, Connected is a sure crowd pleaser. And who expected wAFF to take the vocals from the 2001 trance hit Take Me Away? Trance turned to tech-house and working like a charm, the soothing vocals make a hedonistic juxtaposition to the roaring percussion and sharp snares. The longest of the three but by no means the quietest, expect to hear this in the cosmic space of DC10.
Why has wAFF climbed the underground ladder so quickly? Listen to this EP and you'll find out.
WORDS | Grace Bright
Tracklist:
01 Fat Gash
02. Shabby
03. Connected
