GUETTO STAR by DJ LYCOX

SKU136601
ArtistDJ LYCOX
TitleGUETTO STAR
LabelPRINCIPE DISCOS
Catalog #P 058
Tag
ReleaseW 46 - 2024
FormatVinyl - EULP
 € 28,50 incl. VAT, excl. shipping

Tracks

  1. yaaahh
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/01_dj_lycox_yaaahh.mp3
  2. to bem loko
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/02_dj_lycox_to_bem_loko.mp3
  3. edson no uige
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/03_dj_lycox_edson_no_uige.mp3
  4. pedale ku el
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/04_dj_lycox_pedale_ku_el.mp3
  5. guetto love
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/05_dj_lycox_guetto_love.mp3
  6. contemporaneo
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/06_dj_lycox_contemporaneo.mp3
  7. mortal kombat
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/07_dj_lycox_mortal_kombat.mp3
  8. staring at the moon
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/08_dj_lycox_staring_at_the_moon.mp3
  9. continue a mexe
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/09_dj_lycox_continue_a_mexe.mp3
  10. energia
    https://objectstore.true.nl/rushhourrecords:files/tracks/p/p_058_guetto_star/10_dj_lycox_energia.mp3

Description

DJ Lycox twysts kuduro and tarraxho with drill’s glyding basslines and rugged sound design on a heavily satisfying follow-up to his sought-after 2017 debut LP - Edition of 800 copies

Príncipe’s Parisian ambassador is among the Lisbon label’s earliest recruits as part of key act TMP, and since 1st album ’Sonhos & Pesadelos’ (2017) he’s struck gold with a trio of distinctive solo slabs. On second LP ‘Guetto Star’ he continues to bend the kuduro formula into expressive new forms that balance its sensitive, bluesy grip with rudely swingeing traction on 10 dancefloor bullets scaled between sultry slow jams and proper club pressure. A fiercely disciplined sense of syncopated groove control keeps it tight in the pocket but combusting with concentrated, offbeat energy to put dancers right in the zone.

As with all Príncipe drops, it’s a heavy pleasure to follow its incremental developments of variation within a style. Whilst comparable to grimy and Afrocentric London movements, and new Brazilian baile, DJ Lycox remains distinguished from either, umbilically attached to the Lisbon sound as the trax budge from nods to drill’s funereal minor key melodies and glyding basses in the squashed triplets of opener ‘YAAAHH’ thru the delirious but militant killers ‘Energia’, ‘Pedale KU El’ and lockstepper ’To Bem Loko’.

He wraps up rudest horns with scything noise under lilting rap on a highlight ‘Mortal Kombat’ and stabs brass like a jabbing Ramon Successo on the ‘floor-sloshing barrio banger ‘Contemptoraneo’, but insistently tempers the mode with floruishes of nagging bluesy melody in expressive gems such as the breezily romantic plead of ‘Edson no Urge’, and a centrepiece of screwed, gyrating drill x tarraxho ‘Guetto Love’, whilst plucking the heartstrings in ‘Staring at the Moon.

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