Pikaya - Levante EP

Levante / A-Side
Liquid Loop / B1
Department / B2
Blues Parade (Digital Bonus Track)



Vinyl Distribution: WordandSound
Digital: finetunes

:: Release Info ::

This release presents us three luscious tracks from our meandering-funk supergroup Pikaya. It´s their second record for the Meander imprint and it´s pretty a remarkable one. After their last output with the name Jive and a recent split release for Grubenstrasse Zuerich, now they strongly back with crafty signals & grooves, luscious melodies, warm but clear rhythmic beats finalised with a solid dash of acid. This music from our duo has a high standart in sound development, it´s their mosts straight production to date, and comes salted with raw analog aestetics.

Levante is a dub driven odyssey to the space. It shows Pikaya´s musical ability to form deep soundscapeish dance compositions. Varying drum patterns and room engaging beatstructures snapping every attention, emphasized by a cavernous bass theme.

The flipside starts with Liquid Loop, a quirly anthem of analog inventions and melodic tone shiftings. Everything touched with irresistible micro house atmospheres and melodies. Warm cords and sharp drums eventually leading into fuzzy acidic outerworlds.

To underline the statement, the third tune Department jumps in with a robust kickdrum. Atonal swing excursions and a smack synthesizer mood complete this veritable cinematic and vital record.
Text by Fabian Geimer-Lorusso

:: What DJ’s say ::

awesome tracks, so pro, well written, all with emotion. perfect! - Seth Troxler
Levante :-) Nice - Margaret Dygas
Finally!!! Liquid Loop! BombbombBomba. Thanks guys. - Troy Pierce
Great SOLID EP! Feelin’ the Levante track alot!! - Brothers Vibe
Pikaya... ...one love!!! - Matthias Schaffhausen
Nice e.p, with a real musical identity! - Fabrice Lig
Wow! wowowowoh! (in a very positive way) - Gus Gus
I really like levante!the other tracks are cool too.nice record! - Dario Zenker
Very cool realese ! like all the tracks - Tom Clark
GS/Hive Club -ZurichLevante i like mostly. - Co.mini
like this sound... - Markus Fix
Trippy release as i like,great production,i really can feel this bam bam touch in department in a modern and crazy way great job - Shonky
Levante is sweet. Got a great groove going on. thanks. - Nick Höppner
Liquid Loop is dope... - Miss Jools
like liquide loop ... - Jennifer Cardini
Good job again guys. Really cool one. - Vincent Lemieux
Really like Levante, great bouncy groove and deep atmosphere. Nice! - Simon Beeston
Love Levante, great groover for the long mixes. nice release. - Jeff Samuel
Nice one.thx - Tolga Fidan
Hey....Levante ist mein favourite bisher, spiel ich :) - Grinser
Really nice ep.levante is my fav. will play. - b>Franklin De Costa
Love pikaya sound - Anthony Collins
Wieder eine sehr gute meander. full support - Daniel Mehlhart

If you like what you hear..... support us and get your vinyl copy at your local record store. The digital release date for this record is the 15th of April and will be available e.g. at Beatport, Whatpeolpeplay or in our own webshop or here: