What Kind of Breeze Do You Blow?
Love of Luxury EP
BRILL001

Release: 14 December 2009 (Digital)

Tracklist:

1. Love of Luxury
2. The Probe
3. Your Analog #2
4. Love of Luxury (Tronik Youth Penthouse Mix)
5. Love of Luxury (Lake Heartbeat’s Lake Luxury Remix)

Drawing energy from the static in the air, What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? have found comfort in their new North American home Toronto this year where the duo will be focusing their sorcery on music production for the next few months or so. If their name is any indication, What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? indeed finds inspiration in weather forecasts, the power of seasons change, clouds reformation, terrains, habitats and even modern urban structures where every element in a scenery can aesthetically translate into a beat, sound or a layer of sound. Melody is the keyword, House and Electronica are the methods; with each half of the pair bringing their own influences and styles into the equation, many hard to please journalists have found it difficult to categorize their sound under one genre as even a simple remix visits different territories and shifts shape noticeable as it progresses, handing them interesting descriptions like Tropical-Techno, Melodic-House and Metamorphic-Electronica while the band simply call it the sound of Benevolence.

They’ve transformed tracks for The xx, Kings Of Convenience, You Love Her Coz She’s Dead, Yuksek and Lake Heartbeat among others, the latter which loved the rework done for them so much that they decided to do one in return for the duo as an act of love and appreciation, it is to date their one and only remix. What Kind Of Breeze Do You Blow? are releasing their first EP on Brilliantine on the 14th of December with plans for a follow up in the first quarter of 2010.

Although the Love Of Luxury EP offers the first taste of the original sound of WKBDYB, it is still merely a peek through a keyhole as the possibilities of their genre adaptations are nothing short of being kaleidoscopically complex – multi bands in one is one way to put it. Like metamorphosis the duo are unpredictable and will bring genres together as long as the technique can be mastered.

Debating logic, the title track ‘Love of Luxury’ feels tribal in its own rights, a dark quirky synthetic head-trip of clicky beats driven nu-pop proper vocal song.

Brain slicing electronic dancefloor monster that will appeal to the DJs with a heavier technological flair, with its ethereally snarly nature and space-dolphins-ultrasound coating ‘The Probe’ shall turn your club into a galactic battle zone.

Like the title implies ‘Your Analog #2’ is majorly an electronic mood piece surfing on cosmic waves of ambient doubled with brushes of electric guitar, a prowling new-age shuttle of sound simulating the ominous feel to venturing into the unknown.

Remixes come from Tronik Youth transforming the title track into a hauntingly arcade-hall disco storm of bleeps, coked-up keys and marching band steel drums; while Lake Heartbeat give it an expert rubdown in ballad territory and smooth out the experience by laminating it with milky tropical synth and dreamwave vibes in their only official remix to date.

Download: The Probe