Every so often an artist comes along who is so good that they make everything you’ve ever listened to before seem stale and boring, and force you to reconsider what it is you actually look for in music. Hudson Mohawke is one of them.
I have fallen in love with everything he has put out, the PolyfolkDance EP, Butter, and the countless numbers of absolutely sick vocal remixes he has banged out including the anthem Ooops The production is flawless and innovative, the ideas are inspired and the melodies are always killer. Before readers confuse this with an unabashed open love letter to the man himself, the reason I am singing his praises so highly is because his latest EP is so good that if you didn’t listen to it I would feel personally guilty.
It goes by the name of Satin Panthers, and Hudson explains it’s an attempt at more of a dancefloor project (less “quote-unquote headphone music.”) It achieves this and so much more; every track bar shorter yet impressive intro-soundscape Octan is worthy of a single release. Thunderbay is a full on belter crossing the hip hop aesthetic with the energy and attitude of dubstep. If you were to puncture a hole in Cbat I have no doubt liquid swagger would drip onto your shoe it is so sleek. All Your Love is my personal favourite, uncontrollably catchy and with mad groove. Thank You again switches it up completely with energetic electro come RnB. When you get an artist this innovative, it is genuinely hard to conjure the words to describe this EP, you just need to listen to it.
The thing which impresses us most about Hudson though, is the pure diversity and versatility of his music. One minute he is being name checked by Rhianna and Just Blaze (producer behind Jay-Z) whilst Chris Brown records over his instrumentals, the next tunes like Thunderbay are receiving massive airplay in the underground scene. The new EP is getting huge backing from Benji B, and is slotting into DJ sets alongside dubstep and house on a Friday night in London; I heard it twice at Basslaced @ Cable a few weeks back. It is a record that finds itself at home in sticky-floored basement raves as easily as the dizzying heights of the music industry.
Get hold of it, you won’t regret it…
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