In today’s oversaturated dance music market, if you catch yourself chasing trends then you’ve already lost. Native Origin won’t be pigeonholing himself anytime soon, though. The Denver DJ and producer has incorporated a multitude of sounds into his debut EP, 28 Nights, whose unique four-on-the-floor style sounds like nothing else out there.
House, techno, trance, trap and breakbeat have each found themselves in Native Origin’s repertoire at one time or another. When his production expertise reached the professional level he asked himself, “Why not mix them all together?” The five singles he turned out within the 28 days that followed are as danceable as they are cerebral; they’re an exercise in breaking all the rules while maintaining an accessible appeal and cutting a record that makes a singular, memorable musical statement.
The first song on the EP is “Get It Get It,” which opens up with sublimely textured bass kicks before a chorus of sounds on the high end weave their way into the arrangement. The song goes through a series of well-executed changes whose influences include G house and Orlando breaks.
“Calvin Klein” follows, painted from a shade of the electronic music spectrum that falls somewhere between tech house and minimal techno. A syncopated drum pattern perfectly segues the first part of the song into the next, at which point a resonant, throbbing bass line underscores the echoing male vocal refrain on the top line.
The next single of the EP is “Together Now,” whose thumping bass kicks and thoughtfully placed percussion counterbalances the distorted synths and stretched-out effects comprising its melody. As with the other tracks on 28 Nights, it undergoes a change that keeps the casual listener interested without betraying the groove that keeps the dance floor moving.
Ironically, both “Take This Step” and “Trust This” were the first songs Native Origin had produced when he got down to work on Native Origin despite being the last on its tracklist. In both, you can tell by listening closely that he had initially set out to make a G house EP before deciding to travel in a more eclectic direction. As you might have guessed, that’s also where their titles came from.
Native Origin will soon follow up his debut effort with another five-track EP whose title he has yet to officially release. On 28 Nights.
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