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Artist of the month – TJ Kong & Modular K
House | Wednesday 2nd May 2012 | Osh
The veteran-rookie pairing is a lucrative match for Poker Flat.
Under his early moniker max 404, TJ Kong was not only one of the first to champion the
sounds of techno in Holland during the early nineties but also became one of the original
producers attributed with establishing the Eindhoven style of the now world-famous genre.
On the other hand, Modular K is relatively unheard of, his only previous release being a
collaboration with TJ Kong on Steve Bug’s Poker Flat Recordings in 2011.
An interesting pairing of veteran and rookie then, but one that has just delivered an
incredibly mature and emotive album of deep house, dub techno and ambience in their new
long-player for Poker Flat, Dream Cargoes.
Blending warm, soothing chords and a persistently comforting bassline with the analog
sounds of the cosmos in title track Dream Cargoes provides a thoroughly therapeutic
experience that is repeated in various forms throughout the album. The record is on the
whole a blissfully melodic and compellingly laidback collection of house tracks that have
reignited the reputation of Steve Bug’s classic label with this exciting new collaboration.
