Larry Gus marks a bit of a departure for DFA Records. While his peers deal in nü-disco delights, this Greece-born producer-singer and recent SPIN profilee combines visceral grooves with ’70s spiritual jazz, making for music that hovers in the rafters high above the dance floor — that heady place where hash smoke, vanilla-scented fog, and evaporated sweat mingle in a molasses-thick atmosphere. There’s a little bit of Matthew Dear in the mix, and also some Madlib, but the man blazes his own trail on “The Night Patrols (a Man Asleep),” a simultaneously propulsive and atmospheric highlight from the forthcoming Years Not Living full-length, due out August 20. Fittingly, Stones Throw fella James Pants is plotting a remixed version — so is techno strangeoid Bookworms, but for now, this is plenty to digest. Related trivia: Panagiotis Melidis chose the name Larry Gus because it’s a homonym of the Greek word for “larynx.” The more you know … [Source]
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