![News Added Jun 15, 2012 This is Hot City's fifth release for Moshi Moshi so far, and it finds them sticking to the same line they've been following since their first releases on Highpoint Lowlife and Infrasonics: tight, jacking house and UK garage with an unapologetically classic bent. You couldn't call it retro—there's a sharpness […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/35205468.jpg "Hot City : Something Bout")
This is Hot City's fifth release for Moshi Moshi so far, and it finds them sticking to the same line they've been following since their first releases on Highpoint Lowlife and Infrasonics: tight, jacking house and UK garage with an unapologetically classic bent. You couldn't call it retro—there's a sharpness to Hot City's sound that separates the music from its inspirations from a decade or two ago, but that's also an integral part of the group's aesthetic: their choppy vocal samples sound like they've been cut with a diamond-tipped blade, while their staccato stabs have a pristine, digital feel.
All four cuts are essentially variations on the same theme, juggling piano chords, squelchy stabs, snippets of string ostinato, swinging drum patterns and a whole mess of Todd Edwards-style vocal shots. Hot City member Benz' remix of the title track is darker, deeper and more rolling than the original, offering a nice counterpoint to the track's slightly manic energy. They're all serviceably high-energy party tracks, but they're missing that extra something to elevate them to the caliber of similar tunes like Mosca's "Bax" and "Done Me Wrong"; a little more focus on memorable hooks might be a good starting place.
