Today I would like to introduce you to one of my favorite Parisian crews, D.KO records. Some of the artists on the label you may know are Mézigue, Paul Cut, Mad Rey and Flabaire, and there were also few appearances of Leo Pol! Mézigue, who introduced me to D.KO, made his name by releasing anthem house tracks, which were usually accompanied with amazing video clips.

Mézigue - Du Son Pour Les Gars Sûrs (2016)

The track I selected today is from a release that seemingly went a bit more under the radar, Bandwidth by Flabaire. I intentionally selected one of their more quiet records, as it best exemplifies the breadth of reach of the label, which does not purely focus on party music. I randomly stumbled upon the record at Rush Hour Records in Amsterdam back in 2018. It is a LP, and it shows, clearly more attuned for home-listening, with ambient and dub tracks all around.

AP/PM is quite special, it throws me some Dub Taylor - Detect vibes. It starts off with some small, glitchy sounds. A filtered triple kick starts, detuned chords weave left to right. Bassline starts, pretty minimal too. Things start to groove, a fat kick enters the chat. More high pitch percussion comes to finetune the flow, and finally come the chopped dubby chords. Yes, I would not have guessed it from this intro; but we are definitely into some dub tech flavored track.

Another track I highly recommend from this album is The Royal Scam. A truly beautiful ambient piece, with echoey guitar riffs flying in squadrons with some deep ambient pads. A marvel of a piece taking a nice and slow 12 minutes to unravel. Miam. Enjoy!