Mass is Deep – Liberation

Nick León is warm. The conversation takes place at a distance, the Floridian in his Miamean studio and the journalist somewhat cramped in an soundproofed cabin at Liberty ; But the impression is very clearly that of a discussion with friends. Possibly, we brandished the good epithet to tell him about his music: the attribute « Deep », Grail of any self -respecting electronic music producer since Larry Heard transmuted the House Music into introspective art in the second half of the 80s; And that one could, if not translate it exactly, present it as an antonym of « vulgar » or « mastoc ». Now León, who climbed the levels of the hype at the same time as he multiplied the appearances in the club or in the festival (we personally discovered it in the open air at the Sónar de Barcelona – Dinguerie) has not strictly speaking of him in this term. On the contrary: his first « hit », Xtasis, Released in 2022 on the Colombian label Tratratrax and produced in collaboration with the Mexican Babatr – inventor of a kind of dance not renowned for its finaustry, the Raptor House – was especially rented for its qualities of a compressor roller, large machine, of banger to unlock your hips.

Also, everything that has been written on León since the summons to its ability to transform dancefloors into an oven with South American sweating, transes and polyrythmia; And omits the extreme subtlety of his potions, their depth of field, their poetry. Mad with the sound