Artist: Moogroove
Title: Deuce
Label: SAW Recordings
By: Chad Harnish | 2 August 2002
Tracklist:

• A1: Original Mix
• A2: Beats
• B1: Mara Chooicide Remix

Moogroove "Deuce"

Kenji Eto(a.k.a Moogroove) was born in Osaka Japan, and had his first release ("Moogroove" EP) on Miami-Mo Rhythm Records in 1994. Since then he’s seen releases on Twisted America, Nitegrooves, Futic Recordings Tokyo &,most recently on SAW Recordings with ‘Deuce’. And let me tell you, this Deuce is wild.

This is one of those sneak attack tracks the dance community has been waiting for. Deuce starts innocently enough with tribal percussion and a faint “slicing / dicing” sounding sample, but three minutes into it, the beast starts to come alive. It sounds like power lines shaking, like in the original mix of Lazonby’s ‘Wave Speech’. Tensions grow as the sample comes in harder while symbol crashes explode. Percussion is building all around you and the volume levels are rising. The anticipation the Moogroove creates here is enormous. The last track that I can remember that seemed to wind up as tightly as this one was Oko Tek’s ‘Tazer’. This massive track is energetic and fierce, so dancefloors beware.

Mara, stirring things up this year with the ‘Stripped Beats’ EP and 'Turning It On', start this remix with tight punchy beats wrapped inside a whirlwind. Their monstrous bass line combined with the deep soulful beats is sick. Power and might lie behind this monster. Don’t expect one of Mara’s lush beauties here like ‘Turning It On’, rather expect more of an AutoPorno sound.