Description
Prolific Seattle producer Jon McMillion returns to Nuearth Kitchen with another crucial chapter in his epic tale of haunted house-music subversions. This EP offers four variations on a bizarre and engrossing theme. “Don’t It Make You (edit 1)” is a work of extremes: By some miracle of aural physics, it’s at once one of McMillion’s strangest tracks and one of his most accessible. He sets into motion a staunch, relentless house rhythm bolstered with congas, massed claps, synth-bass raspberries, and a badass male singer intoning, “Don’t it make you feel good, if you wanna get down/Just say it, say it again,” over which a miasma of enigmatic tones bubbles and swirls. Like Bohannon’s disco-funk classics from the ’70s, “Don’t It Make You” seems like a tease, even at 10 minutes duration; you wish it would roll on for at least 30. On “Don’t It Make You (edit 2),” McMillion strips things down to dance-floor essentials and erases some of the free-floating background weirdness.
