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CockTail d’Amore, the new Berlin-based label (and longrunning
monthly party) run by DJ/producers Discodromo
and Boris, welcomes Steven Warwick a.k.a. Heatsick to
the crew. Heatsick, a brit from east anglia who now also
calls Berlin his home, has built up a name for himself over
the last five years, having released a number of limited
edition cassette tapes and CD-Rs on labels like Alcoholic
Narcolepsy and Not Not Fun. Now CockTail d’Amore gives
his the prestige of his very first 12” maxi-single, “Dream
Tennis”. Heatsick’s latest odyssey is based entirely on
sounds from a vintage Casiotone keyboard, with the
majority of the keys missing, appearing something like a
boxer’s smirk after losing a particularly brutal fight. But
even with such a punkish approach, Heatsick’s
experimental attitude finds him able to coax layers of
melodic interplay and jacking rhythms across its ten-and-ahalf-
minute duration. Never before has his Chicago house
influence shined through so clearly, for a new permutation
on his style, what might be referred to as “kaleidoscopic
music”, a term that Ron Hardy certainly would have
appreciated. Diego Morales of Santiago, Chile, a.k.a.
Diegors, provides his own version of the track. Diegors is
one of the key players from Matias Aguayo’s Cómeme
imprint (under this alias as well as Fredi Michel) and
fleshes out the more lo-fi sounds of Heatsick’s original into
a panoramic, playful house number, like a spaced-out Mr.
Fingers track. Finally, on the flip side, a certain Norwegian
royal figure filters “Dream Tennis” through his own
prismatic lenses: Prins Thomas needs no introduction …
This drastic reworking of “Dream Tennis” is made from
100% newly recorded audio, following the psychedelic
sprawl of the original but with more of a live band feel, with
dashes of kraut rock and acid. So please have a taste –
we’re confident that a second round of our CockTail will
have you feeling the Amore