DESCRIPTION:
Label: Mile End Records (http://www.facebook.com/mileendrecords)
Release Date - 2012-07-30
Album "My Side Project EP" available on:
http://www.beatport.com/release/my-side-project-ep/943635

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There's a refreshing lack of pretension about My Side Project, which befits a good Leeds lad like Darius Syrossian. This is an EP of no nonsense house, built for the swollen masses on the dance floor and not the types who prefer to prop up the club's walls. Little wonder that DJ Sneak is one of his biggest supporters.

The lead track loops a French house-style guitar lick, adding to it camp New York-style vocal drops, nagging keyboard stabs and frothing percussion. "1994 Session" ups the pace and, as the name suggests, indulges in a bit of dance music archaeology: Atop a Van Helden-like stop/start rhythm, Syrossian weaves in acid oscillations and rave accents. Syrossian protégés, Butler & Murt, drag "1994 Session" into deeper waters, with a muddier reinterpretation of the original's synth line, snappy garagey snares and adding in a breathy, Teutonic-sounding female vocal to boot.

Mile End Records was born in 2005 out of the converging paths and musical enterprises of its founders and focusses mostly on House Music with excursions in to other genres. First and foremost, Mile End Records is a label dedicated to the burgeoning importance of the Montreal and Canadian music scene and its worldwide appreciation, The brainchild of celebrated Canadian label Bombay Records, founder and Producer/DJ Patrick Dream and, MIXART Studios' Kirk Coleman --- Mile-End Records draws on the huge pool of international talent in its hometown of Montreal and beyond--- including signings, comps and mixes from Roy Davis Jr., Angel Moraes, DJ Vibe, Miguel Graca, Madirid, Jaimy ,Stephan Grondin, Andy Roberts and many many others. Quite simple we aim to bring Canadian underground music to the world by supporting, recording and promoting our best homegrown artists and producers while teaming them up the best producers in the World !