Contributing Writer
UK House Producer & DJ Gavin_P has returned to Waze & Odyssey’s Street Tracks label with the delicious piano house infused By My Side / Back Then – early contenders for sounds of the summer!
By My Side is a joyous piano house masterpiece that’s bound to get people dancing at pool and beach parties all around the world as temperatures rise this summer. The track starts with a driving, expertly layered with a minimal dirty bass, before cutting to an infectiously catchy 90s House piano line, setting the scene perfectly for the soulful vocals: Now that I’ve got you by my side / Tell me are you ready for the ride? / You know we’re gonna make it last all night / So let’s just take our, take our time.
Moving things firmly into the sounds more reminiscent of later nineties, Back Then is a track that will get you digging out the likes of Tall Pall, Tomcraft and early Tiefschwarz from your collections. Whereas By My Side tells of a joyous reunion, Back Then’s vocal laments of a love lost: Now you hold her hand like you held mine back then. Beautiful minor piano chords frame the vocals, before giving way to a deliciously wicked bassline. Music is the space between notes, as the famous phrase goes and Gavin_P uses space expertly in this track, building to crescendo and deconstructing several times to brilliant effect.
DJ and Producer Gavin_P’s last single, Ain’t Nobody, was one of the feel-good records of Summer 2022, heard across Ibiza from Cafe Mambo (Radio 1 Ibiza Weekend), to Hï! Ibiza, and O Beach. DJ support comes from Kerri Chander, Roger Sanchez, Benny Benassi, Paco Osuna, Chris Lake and Chris Fortier, amongst many others.
Buy / Stream By Your Side / Back Then at https://fanlink.to/back_then