- Keiran Lomax has an open-minded approach to making music, as befits a man who released drum & bass on Moving Shadow before making the move into dubstep. Of late he's concentrated on styles along the 4/4 continuum, and a return to Apple Pips finds Komon on house and garage manoeuvres, rather like he did on last year's EP for Aus.
On "So Easy" that means using the full breadth of UK garage tropes—a bassline so wobbly it practically topples over, spinbacks, a spitting 2-step rhythm, synth stabs and a vocal that rises from deep baritone to falsetto and back. If that sounds too much like something from a 1998 Todd Edwards mix, the rich, rounded percussion firmly sets it in the now. And 2013 is definitely where "Cosmic John" is at. It wallows in the sort of luxuriant, growling bassline favoured by Huxley and Maxxi Soundsystem. Finger-snapping beats and Italo pianos feed the meaty, bouncy rhythm, with the track radiating a height-of-summer glow.
TracklistA1 So Easy
A2 Cosmic John