ARTIST Thee J Johanz
RELEASE TITLE More Love!
LABEL Running Back
CATALOG RB090D
GENRE Indie Dance
AUDIO FORMAT MP3 320kbps CBR
RELEASE DATE 2020-07-03
MP3 NiTROFLARE / ALFAFILE
- Thee J Johanz – Kickin’ In (Patrick Cowley) 08:14 125bpm Fmaj
- Thee J Johanz – More Love! (Original Mix) 07:32 124bpm Cmaj
- Thee J Johanz – Warped Minds (Original Mix) 06:06 122bpm Cmin
- Thee J Johanz – Warped Minds (TJJ’s More Cowbell Reprise) 04:52 122bpm Amin
Thee man, Thee myth Thee legend! Making records and shaking rumps since ’93 AS Thee J Johanz (historians might know better), he is a cornerstone of the electronic music scene in the Netherlands. Here we have him debuting on Running Back with four tracks. Traditional, yet refreshing, in equal parts quirky and easy to apply, they show and balance the mechanical genius, deepness and sense of humor, Johanz displayed from day one. “More Love!” is the archetypical electronic disco track that owes as much to Giorgio Moroder creativity as it does to the inventiveness of Japans engineers. “Kickin’ In” is a Patrick Cowley cover with its proceeds going to the San Francisco Aids Foundation. Finally, “Warped Minds” pays tribute to Cowley’s production methods and principals with a “More Cowbell Reprise” thrown in for good measure. Thee, we salute you!
REVIEW
If you know your dance music history, you’ll no doubt already have recognised this EP’s artwork… for those that haven’t, it’s a pastiche of the cover of Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’, and never has the phrase “wears its musical influences on its sleeve” been more apt! Inside you’ll find four slices of hi-octane electronic disco in the classic Moroder/Cowley mode, with ‘More Love!’ itself blurring the lines between homage, re-edit and cover, ‘Kicking In (Patrick Cowley)’ continuing the theme and the surging, euphoric ‘Warped Minds’ sporting a gloriously cheesy vocodered vocal and coming accompanied by a FIERCE dub/beats pass from Johanz himself.