The Tremmuh EP
- 1. Cat And Mouse (Feat. Laura Vane)
- 2. Got A Pulse
- 3. Bumble Bee
- 4. The Tremmuh
- 5. Soxoff
- 6. The Mist Lifts
Hint has been a good friend of Tru Thoughts for many a year now. He was first found on Tru Thoughts (whilst signed to the superb Ninja Tune) on the Shapes One Compilation with a track called “Back To The Wig†which was a nod to the club night that Tru Thoughts label boss Robert Luis ran in Brighton on a Wednesday night at The Jazz Place between 1994-1999 (and as a young drum and bass fan was where J Hint first got into the style he now creates and DJs).
Hint originally released music on Deep Water, before moving to Hombre and finally Ninja Tune, where he released his “Portakabin Fever†album. Various gigs, tours and live shows followed (including touring with The Big Chill and playing on their Main Stage, plus touring Europe with Ninja Tune and being resident at the highly respected Seen/Futureboogie club night in Bristol).
With a change of style and direction, the next Hint release was on the Tru Thoughts Shapes Red Compilation, with his “Tremmuh†track (which is here on the EP) and his dancefloor-rocking remix for Diesler. Both of which caused a big stir at TT Towers!!!
So now fully signed on the dotted line to Tru Thoughts, this change of style shows the development of Hint and is a vastly different style to his last album. This dynamic dancefloor orientated EP may surprise, but excite, many a new and old Hint fan!!!
Hint is a quality DJ so check him out at Tru Thoughts events across the globe.
Reactions
These six impressive upbeat broken dance tracks make for a hearty EP. Hint gets raw and rude with buzzing-hornet fonky analog bass stabs and ‘nuff scattered percussion. Blink and you’ll miss the wicked Afro-soul/funk cut “Got A Pulseâ€. A-class music!
A mighty fine extended player from El Hinto, pushing the boundaries once again. ‘Cat and Mouse’ features the previously unknown to me, and quite brilliant , vocals of Laura Vane. It’s hide’n’seek soul/jazz and bruk-step beats for the next generation. ‘Got a Pulse’ balances a Quantic style guitar riff with one of Hints famously bad ass bass lines and some nicely retro synths. ‘Bumble Bee’ is a predictably buzzing little off-beat number; and on the flip, the title track is a sub-bass broken killer; ‘Soxoff’ has an almost Caribbean vibe, and sees quirky keys battling with a funky breakbeat; and ‘The Mist Lifts’ combines a shuffling groove with more sub-sonic bass.
Hint is one of the most creative, and perhaps most unsung young producers around. Check this boy out!!!
Sometime Ninja Tune bod Hint ups the tempo impressively on this excellent value six-tracker, largely ditching his mellow past in favour of a varied selection of more dancefloor-friendly flavas. The garage-meets-broken beat bomb ‘The Tremmuh’ is probably the pick, with the ‘Hold It Down’-ish broken boogie of ‘Cat & Mouse’ not far behind. In truth, though, pretty much every track is worthy of plays, even the more downbeat atmospheric wobble of ‘The Mist Lifts’. 4/5
Best known for his wistful, downtempo 2003 album “Portakabin Fever”, Hint kicks things up a notch with this six track EP that is more in keeping with his style as a DJ. Time spent as resident with Bristol’s leftfield institution Futureboogie has obviously rubbed off, though this is not his first flirtation with the dancefloor as the press release reliably informs me that as a young D’n’B head J Hint used to be a regular at Rob Luis’ club night in Brighton. It is on Rob Luis’ Tru-Thoughts label that Hint now finds himself and is sounding very comfortable in his new dancing shoes indeed. The catchy melodies of “Cat and Mouse” and “Got A Pulse” josh with influences of broken beat, grime and afrobeat on bowel worrying title track “The Tremmuh” and the gutsy grind of “Bumblebee”. The Tremmuh it may be and this EP should win Hint fans in new areas while exciting and surprising his existing ones.
An EP filled to the brim with genius, forward thinking awkward dance music.
All tracks here are wonderful, I think this works better than the Ninja Tune material
Oh My god! Awesome bass wobbling thingy!! One of the best TT releases yet
Your Tremmuh tune is LARGE!
Mashed up Sao Paolo last week then Rio too….. And absolutely tore the room in half when I played it at Co-Op Easter Spesh a few weeks back. Instant rewind. Big!