Description
Shanti Celeste & Gramrcy’s Peach Discs pair label regular Ciel with Dan Only on their 2nd Cloudsteppers session of adroit garage-techno-house
‘Aqua Hotel’ chases up Cloudsteppers’ first move, ‘The Limit’ (2022) with a quartet of trim, flighty mechanisms on the cusp of garage, techno, and pop. Cael’s vocals really set off the highlight ‘Control’, a sterling piece of deep but effervescent garage-house like Maria Minerva-meets-Mood II Swing, whist the other tend to lean variants of UKG-techno between the spacious stepper ‘Aqua Hotel’, a fruity UKG-breaks workout ‘Duckstep’, and another highlight in the squirrelly, corkscrewing details and dark-to-light skip of ‘TDG’.
— BOOMKAT
