Adam Beyer x Eli Brown – Overdose Of Bass [Drumcode]
This first Adam Beyer x Eli Brown collaborative release has been feverishly anticipated by fans keeping tabs on their growing friendship and further excited by the pair’s first official B2B at Lisbon’s Brunch Electronik in September. Now ‘Overdose of Bass’ EP is here, a power-packed techno two-tracker enriched by diverse elements, on Beyer’s Drumcode on November 22nd . It also marks Eli Brown’s welcome return to the label after his massive collaboration this January ‘When I Push’ with Layton Giordani and OFFAIAH following Brown’s 2022 EP ‘Deep Down’. The EP ‘Overdose of Bass’ combines recent developments and past influences of both techno giants.
‘Overdose of Bass’: the title track has rattling snares and a breaksy beat ushering in a spoken vocal layering different levels of processing, for a half sensual, half robotic riff – ‘there it goes/ overdose/of bass’ – with the doppler siren builds, giving a spacey, mysterious call and response. Hypnotic, disturbing, and edgy. ‘Living In The Moment’: an urgent techno beat, a Moroder-esque bass synth, and a recurrent riff like a signal becoming ever more high and desperate, are counterpointed by an ethereal, quavering, sweet female vocal, strengthened by the melodic build in the huge central breakdown. Urgent, demanding, hyper, this is dancefloor heaven.
“I think Eli is one of the key artists to bring a fresh energy and perspective to club techno in recent years and it’s been cool collaborating with him, both in the studio and behind the decks in the B2Bs we’ve played, with the Drumcode show in Lisbon being a particular highlight’ Adam says. ‘I think with Overdose Of Bass we’ve perfectly blended our two respective styles and sounds. I’m really pleased to be able to finally share this with the Drumcode family as it’s been a big track in many of my sets through 2024.”
“Adam has always been someone I’ve massively respected as one of the pioneers of modern techno,” Eli says. “We’ve been exchanging records and I’ve been sending him music for sometime and then he signed a track called ‘Deep Down’ and then my flip on LFO’s ‘Freak’ which really helped cement me in the techno world. As we have spent more time together our friendship has really grown and after a couple of B2Bs I feel we have really clicked which can be seen when we play together. Whilst we come from different musical backgrounds – Adam from techno and me from Jungle/DnB- our musical tastes are very similar sonically and fundamentally. It felt so natural to work on some music together.”
