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Physics - 'First Flight'

(Tuesday November 5, 2002 1:34 PM )

Released on 04/11/2002
Label: deeplay

Coming via Scandanavia's purveyors of crafted deep house, Deeplay, Sweden's Physics specialise in high production quality mid tempo, Latin infused jazz house that brims with ideas.

Whereas US house has been becoming progressively more minimal, Physics have taken the opposite path.

So while they share their US counterparts' impeccable attention to detail, Physic's achievement is to cram their music full of interesting developments without ever making the tracks sound too busy.

In this, and in style, they share the same production ability that made St Germain's 'Boulevard' and 'Tourist' albums stand out.

Tracks such as 'Movin', roll fluidly around a walking jazz bassline and 'Flying Away' skips along on crisp jazz high hats, while using the kind of analogue sound that gave Air's 'Moon Safari' it's intimacy.

Occasionally the instrumentation is stripped back to the exposed thump and click of house kick drum high hat patterns, but the covers are soon pulled back over, cuddling the beats with warm keyboards, organic bass sounds, understated saxophones, Latin piano riffs and guitar lines.

The result is house music that sounds refreshingly live.

Physic's remaining asset is their ability to create songs that sound effortlessly composed.

Their uptempo ballard, 'Believe In Love', swaps seamlessly between song and groove structures, while the single release, 'The Most Beautiful Boy In Brazil', introduces percussive party beats that are nevertheless washed in ambience.

Elsewhere we get rolling disco basslines, on the joyful 'Summer', allusions to the Detroit deep sound ('Carry U Inside') and a laid back Billie Holiday vocal delivery on 'Tie Me Down'.

With the world already alerted to Norway via the work of Bjorn Torske and Royksopp, Physics are poised to do the same thing for Sweden.

They should find the door wide open.

    by Ben Osborne

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