Name: Courtesy Loaner
Brand: Soul Ipsum

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

ARC 10

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Colour details

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Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2018-07-06

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Rush Hour Music B.V.

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

Total Cap

1 / 12" / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Soul Ipsum

Genre US

House

Label US

Arcane

<i class="review-intro">“DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT TECHNO?” / “NO…”</i> Following up the highly recommended <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&amp;q=Preparations+For+Departure" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Preparations For Departure</a> EP by <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?&amp;q=Yu%20Su&amp;filter=Brand/Manufacturer/Artist_fq:%22Yu%20Su%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Yu Su</a>, New York’s premiere imprint of boogie-noir takes a double dip in the Pacific Northwest for this 5-track slab of analogue bliss from Portland’s Wyatt Schaffner aka Soul Ipsum. After a string of cult cassettes and CD-Rs, Schaffner makes his debut on wax on one of the finest labels going, and it’s his most distilled work to date. The expert modern funk of side one opener “Gumshoe” is a bucket of cold water dumped on the head of anyone who was getting used to all the killer house music <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&amp;q=Arcane" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Arcane</a>’s been putting out lately, calling to mind highly collectable entries by <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&amp;q=Jamma+Dee" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jamma Dee</a> and <a href="https://www.turntablelab.com/search?type=product&amp;q=Benedek" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Benedek</a> from the label’s early days. Three free-floating house grooves of varying shapes and sizes (“Empty Jester,” “La Vuelta,” “Scenepin/Ugatz”) are slotted in for your dancing pleasure, featuring an array of heavenly pads, syrupy synth bass and expertly-deployed samples that Schaffner and his Pac-NW comrades do so well. Closing out the offering is a swinging slice of wooden two-step (“Snow Clap”), briefly teasing snippets of shiny DX-7 jazz licks and Juno pads before they’re washed away in the Oregon rain. There’s a tantalizing spread of styles and tempos on offer, and we could easily see all five of these tracks slipping out over the course of a night. Limited edition vinyl-only pressing, no digital; recommended.

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