Premiere: Listen to Native Origin’s “Calvin Klein” from “28 Nights” EP
In todayâs oversaturated dance music market, if you catch yourself chasing trends then youâve already lost. Native Origin wonât 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 Originâs repertoire at one time or another. When his production expertise reached the professional level he asked himself, âWhy not mix them all together?â The five singles he turned out within the 28 days that followed are as danceable as they are cerebral; theyâre 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 âGet It Get It,â 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.
âCalvin Kleinâ 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.
