Dream Tennis

HEATSICK - Dream Tennis - CockTail d'Amore 02 - VINYL ONLY * LIMITED TO 250 COPIES by Cocktail d'Amore

VINYL ONLY * LIMITED TO 250 COPIES - release date: 27th of July

CockTail d’Amore, the new Berlin-based label (and long-running monthly party) run by DJ/producers Discodromo and Boris, welcomes Steven Warwick a.k.a. Heatsick to the crew.
Heatsick, a brit from east anglia who now also calls Berlin his home, has built up a name for himself over the last five years, having released a number of limited edition cassette tapes and CD-Rs on labels like Alcoholic Narcolepsy and Not Not Fun. Now CockTail d’Amore gives his the prestige of his very first 12” maxi-single, “Dream Tennis”.

Heatsick’s latest odyssey is based entirely on sounds from a vintage Casiotone keyboard, with the majority of the keys missing, appearing something like a boxer’s smirk after losing a particularly brutal fight. But even with such a punkish approach, Heatsick’s experimental attitude finds him able to coax layers of melodic interplay and jacking rhythms across its ten-and-a-half-minute duration. Never before has his Chicago house influence shined through so clearly, for a new permutation on his style, what might be referred to as “kaleidoscopic music”, a term that Ron Hardy certainly would have appreciated.

Diego Morales of Santiago, Chile, a.k.a. Diegors, provides his own version of the track. Diegors is one of the key players from Matias Aguayo’s Cómeme imprint (under this alias as well as Fredi Michel) and fleshes out the more lo-fi sounds of Heatsick’s original into a panoramic, playful house number, like a spaced-out Mr. Fingers track.

Finally, on the flip side, a certain Norwegian royal figure filters “Dream Tennis” through his own prismatic lenses:
Prins Thomas needs no introduction to those already familiar with the so-called “space disco” sound of the last few years, but for those of you living in a cave (cavemen are the original bears, and after all, hirsute hunks are CockTail’s biggest fanbase), this Oslo dweller is responsible for the respected Full Pupp label and is half the duo Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas whose followers include not just European DJs but American indie rockers. This drastic reworking of “Dream Tennis” is made from 100% newly recorded audio, following the psychedelic sprawl of the original but with more of a live band feel, with dashes of kraut rock and acid.

So please have a taste – we’re confident that a second round of our CockTail will have you feeling the Amore!