Adesse Versions - In The Dark EP on White Label

Shadowy Adesse has crafted some sublime, deep and evocative cuts for the likes of Prime Numbers and Make Love in Public Spaces. But it’s his white label series of Adesse Versions that have kept dance music fans and underground vinyl obsessive’s drooling for months, previously re-rubbing Theo Parrish’s Skywalking, Richie Hawtin AKA Jack Master’s Bang The Box and melded the vocal from Jhelisa’s ‘90s r’n’b smoothy, Friendly Pressure, into his own upfront house diversion on Pressured.

Here, the man without a face – widely credited as a ‘techno producer who releases on Curle and Ostgut Ton’ – further develops and engages with his darkly delicious, eerily groovy vocal-house side for another EP of respectfully re-rubbed soul and pop classic, given the house treatment for a more contemporary, underground context.

Taking things up a notch in terms of tone, pace and BPM from Pressured, In The Dark takes a stepping, breezy rhythm, with clapping snares and oozing bass, wrapped around a sexually charged, smoulderingly arousing vocal hook of "I Wanna Know/What It Feels Like/In The Dark", before taking on a slow-motion soul refix of Madonna’s 'Justify My Love' on Justified, fading Madge’s vocals in and out through a mesh of flange effects and stiff beats & eerie, predatory atmospheres, before Freaks of the Industry kicks off on funky finger-bass, fluctuating between ascending and descending chords, chopping up and carefully filtering a vocal hook sample from 20th Century Steel Band's 'Heaven and Hell is on Earth', making for a fine disco-house number to finish, over-flowing with sleazy overtones and tripped out, heart-on-sleeve murmurs of hazy ecstasy.