Ossie – ‘The Buzz’ [Meno]

It’s 3am. You’re jacked up on shitty drugs. You’ve gotten back to your flat. Your main aims are bringing yourself down and not waking the neighbours. However you’ve got 10+ fucked mates with you and they want to keep it going, stringing you along you with ‘em (Half smiling, quarter gurning, quarter crying on the inside).

You say to them “put some tunes on but keep it down”. Knowing full well that the ‘whatever’s cheapest’ alcohol and sound system that’s being tested by the army to take down stealth bombers has not only rendered them deaf but also lacking in empathy.

Your mate goes up to your Mac, opens YouTube and puts on some bangers. Despite your original resolution he finds something that suits everyone. Ossie’s new EP The Buzz.

As Call On You begins you worry he’s put on some ridiculous post nineties dance disaster, those fucking kick-drums bouncing round like nobody’s business, nicely pounding anyone’s headrest within 500 feet. The neighbour who’s up at five will undoubtedly appreciate the elegantly robust 808 style instruments that Ossie uses to contrast the more modern flowing and ethereal synths. Neat sampling and solid mid heavy production makes it hard not to enjoy this infectious tune taking a lot of influence from early 2000s pop tunes.

He’s got a certain Mosca vibe in this one and it’s definitely an interesting take on something that I hate to say is slowly creeping into the underground sphere, POP MUSIC??????? Who’d of thought it.

TALKING OF EARLY 2000’S CHART ENTRIES. The next tune is all Fede La-fucking-Grande.

YouTube awkwardly skips to the next track The Buzz. At this point your gurning bro is gonna be hyped and this next one fucking delivers. I don’t know if it gives you “the buzz” but definitely some sort of buzz. The bass is so deep and rolling that the now enraged neighbours will be calling the cops and wishing they never moved to somewhere where the houses were cheaper but the nights were up to eight hours longer.

Everyone will be thinking “put your hands up for Detroit” but you’ll be thinking ‘how much fucking distortion is on that bassline? It’s all resonance’. You forget you wanted to sleep. You forget that you’ve got to work tomorrow. You remember how ace your mates are. You get yourself up off the couch and start moving around and passing the hours swiftly away.

This EP is some serious fun and bizarrely hosts a smorgas of various production tid-bits in only a few songs, something seldom seen in any dance tune, EVER. An eclectic and forward thinking release from Ossie who in the past has released on Somethink, Hyperdub and 2020 this time working with Meno.

Words @FREnchfire

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