Crate Exploratory: The Partysquad Can Turn Your Party From Dire to Fire

Hollertronix adds a brand new title to it’s catalogue, this time by none other than Dutch booty bass bandits the Party Squad. Renowned for the simplistic, stripped-down baltimore club joints, along with their quality-over-quantity mantra (they only release 2 or 3 singles a year TOPS), Hollertronix still attains a high position within the genre.

Trainspotters who follow Diplo religiously already know many of the four tracks released on this EP. For example, the energetic Crazy Funky Style with it’s memorable trumpet stabs and opening synths reminiscent of a 1992 breakbeat hardcore tune on a label like Reinforced has floated around the hands of top tier DJ’s like him since 2006. The really short opener, Pull Up (which clocks in at barely two minutes), has also been around for about a year and is pretty much an instant floor filler. Want to make the tune a little longer in your set? Just do what the lyrics are telling you and rewind that shit! Side 2 injects a little reggae action into Murderer, while Rage is probably the best tune of the lot with a squealing lead synth that you definitely aren’t going to forget well into 2010. 

Really like the variety of flavors injected into this one; with influences coming out of baltimore club, electro, fidget, bassline house, hip hop, drum and bass, and old school hardcore, all rolled in to roughly ten minutes of listening pleasure. Although it’s a short release, I’ll take an epic 2-3 minute track over a boring 10 minute one any day of the week!