fabric presents Danilo Plessow (MCDE) [DJ Mix]

fabric presents Danilo Plessow (MCDE) [DJ Mix]

Danilo Plessow made his name in the late ’00s with the soul- and disco-fueled house of his Motor City Drum Ensemble alias; then, in 2011, he revealed the depths of his musical tastes with a DJ-Kicks mix that swept gracefully through cosmic jazz, dub techno, disco, and Afrobeat. Plessow’s fabric presents mix begins in similarly eclectic territory, drifting through the new-age ambient of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and the ambient jazz fusion of exiles Skuas. But this time out, Plessow is far more focused on the groove. After a gorgeously ethereal introduction, he hits his stride with Matthew Herbert’s blissed-out remix of Recloose’s 2000 single “Can’t Take It,” then kicks the vibe up a notch with the vivacious deep house of Moogroove’s 1994 single “Dark Room.” From there, he zigzags between house, electro, techno, disco, and even industrial music, but no matter how much he switches up the beat, all of his selections are linked by their rich, super-saturated colors. Along the way, he touches on a couple of his own tracks, including “Decay/Sustain/Release,” from his new alias Basic-Variation: Driven by snapping drum machines and soaked in aquamarine keys, it’s a dead ringer for the funk-infused Detroit techno that influenced his original moniker. However far he roams, Plessow just keeps coming back to the source.

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