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Review: Half Cut – Here in Full

Coming in hot from Sydney, Australia, Half Cut‘s first EP for the HOMAGE label, Here in Full, is a great spin – seven tracks of house and electro dialed in and ready to make you cut a rug.

“Player” kicks it off with, appropriately, an electric kick drum, hi-hat, and snare and a heavy dose of 1980s early house music. That thick synth-bass is killer, and then comes in the sample of “This ain’t no game!” to remind you that creating funky house music can be serious business. “Floor Five,” the first single off the EP, moves us from the late 1980s into mid-1990s house music with its joyful synth-piano chords and gospel sound vocals.

Remember that thick synth-bass in “Player?” Well, it’s even thicker in “Free,” which practically jiggles your hips for you. “Noise” thumps and bumps with a slightly dangerous edge that I’m sure gets asses out of seats. The Crosby remix of “Noise” almost completely changes the tune, making it a sexy banger great for dance floors and bedrooms.

“Energy” is the workout song you didn’t know you needed on your cardio playlist until you hear it, and the way Half Cut samples a cut from “Pass the Dutchie” by Musical Youth will make your jaw drop.

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Half Cut announces new “Floor Five” EP.

HOMAGE has been at the forefront of electronic music in Brooklyn since its inception in 2017. Originally starting as an event series, the party was a nod to their predecessors in New York, those who pioneered a thriving nightlife scene in dynamic and intimate locations. Jump six years and HOMAGE is on its own path, having released a diverse selection of records from Kettama to Aldonna. Now the label readies its twenty-first release with a relatively new name, Sydney-based producer Half Cut, who over the course of seven tracks explores euphoric house, coiling electro, and jacking acid; tied together by a remix from Panorama Bar regular & Potency Records boss Cromby.

Speaking on the EP, the labels co-founder Ryan Clover says:

Kain sent us a pack of demos before the pandemic and they were all fantastic. He’s one of a few artists that have sent us a cold email and gotten signed immediately. Kain is half Japanese/half Australian and is based in Sydney, and he’s started to cut his teeth in the local circuit. While he’s a relative newcomer to the scene, his tunes have already seen support from Craig Richards, Gene on Earth, Cromby, Youandewan, Perdu, ANOTR, and Who is Arcadia, and in 2022 he had his first song signed to a VA for Limousine Dream (Nug-Net), Gene on Earth’s highly regarded label. 

Half Cut has recently shared the first single from the EP titled Floor Five – a certified dance-floor filler, that brings smiles, energy and the type of sweaty hugs only those who have fallen in love on a dance floor will know. 

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