21/07/2025
Thanks Harold Heath for the review in 5 Magazine :
Shur-i-kan Fred Everything Composition X on Lazy Days Recordings "The latest release on Fred Everything's Lazy Days label is a nice 3-tracker EP from Fred and UK producer Shur-l-Kan. You get three versions of the same tune, "Composition X"; there's a sub- three-minute reprise with no beats or basslines if you want to get into some creative mixing, and which also gives you a nice, clear listen to the lovely synth parts and gorgeous strings. The original is this really slick, clean, driving house groove that sits in a very nice place indeed, sit- uated somewhere between deep house and progressive house. There's a nice set of crisp congas/bongos underpinning some highly effi- cient shuffling beats, a slippery, spacious main bassline and a second set of, I don't know, like bass tones to compliment it, along with lush synth chords, some twinkling piano flourishes,
and it's even got what sound like celestial harp strums tucked in there too. It's a tune for when you want to play something that wavers between pretty and euphoric without ever quite fully com- mitting to either mood.
I've left the best to last though, because the dub of this is just superb. They've stripped back the pads and strings, I'm not sure if they've add- ed more percussion or if you can just hear it clearer, they've left in that slippery little bassline and then just rinsed out a single Roland Juno 60 synth chord stab, which was apparently er- roneously triggered by a drum track and left in because it sounded so good. Beats, bass and a single Juno stab — do it right and you've got a heads-down, hands-up killer on your hands, as is the case here."
