Frits Wentink – Timid Kickflip

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Rooting the productions of Frits Wentink in one specific style has always been tough, primarily because he makes quirky, oddball house and techno numbers that draw inspiration from the dust-encrusted, sample-rich haziness of MPC-driven instrumental hip-hop. His latest EP, which arrives on the popular Bobby Donny imprint, is another boundary-blurring affair that’s closest in tone and style to deep house, but is as far from ‘standard’ deep house as you’d expect. It’s a great collection of cuts all told, with our picks being the bassline driven, alien-sounding unorthodoxy of ‘You Talk Funny’, the warped, mind-mangling tech-house-jazz of ‘Forestation’ and the deliciously hazy, hypnotic dub-house of ‘Shred Bread’.