- Turbo regular Gingy, alongside partner-in-crime Bordello, is typically known for various shades of piledriving peak-time techno. So it's a touch puzzling to see the Torontonian pop up on Clone Royal Oak with a vocal track in tow. As it happens, "RAPT" is vocal house done Gingy-style. For the first few minutes it's a zonked broken-beat techno tune, its hollow, drifting chords suggesting that warmth and soul are but distant post-rave memories. When the requisite organ stabs enter, soon followed by the gorgeous silken tones of Azari & III's Starving Yet Full, the sudden shift in gear is disorienting. Rather than roll with it, though, Gingy just intensifies his percussive barrage. The effect is pretty full-on—you may well flake out before the track's eight minutes are up—but compelling all the same.
Clone's own Serge & Tyrell turn in a "Dub" version of the track, enhancing the original's utility by stripping out most of its interesting aspects. Gingy instrumental "VSCUS," meanwhile, struggles to match its partner. The aqueous chords are pretty enough, but the contorted synth drone is a bit "Erotic Discourse." Without the tension of opposing forces, the whole structure falls just a little flat.
TracklistA1 Rapt feat. Starving Yet Full
A2 Rapt feat. Starving Yet Full (Serge & Tyrell Dub)
A3 Vscus