Like a 70s sci-fi voyage towards transcendence, the latest mix, Dance Meditation… Reloading Deep House by Space Off 70 gives the genre a firm reboot. The juxtapositional vocals, from deep, reverberant, commanding tones to animatronic, sticky-sweet, playful timbres, make the release all the more entrancing as you absorb the beauty of music as it is lyrically relayed and rhythmically displayed in the hypnotic cadence of the deep-house motifs.
The production understands the strange, euphoric link between movement and surrender. Dance Meditation… Reloading Deep House takes the spiritual idea of dance as prayer and turns it into something physical and cosmically theatrical, full of synth-work that feels retro-futurist without getting trapped in museum-piece nostalgia. There is a devotional current running through it, but Space Off 70 keeps enough tongue-in-cheek charisma writhing within the grooves to stop the track floating away from the dancefloor.
Born in April 1970, with years of soul, classical, pop, rock and electronic records feeding his imagination, Space Off 70 treats music as emotional transmission and sonic experiment. Fans of Kraftwerk, Giorgio Moroder, Cerrone and Daft Punk’s more playful electronic lineage, this one’s for you. If you want a psychedelic deep-house release to get high with time and time again, Space Off 70 has the right frequency.
Dance Meditation… Reloading Deep House is now available on all major streaming platforms, including SoundCloud.
Review by Amelia Vandergast
