The title track ‘Losing Control’ is a raw and stripped back bit of house music with a taught bassline, eerie robot voices and plenty of industrial grit and grime in the textures on offer. It’s heavy warehouse music but retains a great sense of dynamism before ‘Kabuki Playboy’ lays down a rich, rasping bassline and has various shooting synths dance all around it. The claps are metallic and grainy and the mood is one you’d find at a deserted industrial estate in the dead of night.
‘Isolation’ verges on electro with again a gnarly bassline and great sense of wide open but futuristic space. A clatter of hits and spaceship like synths all circle round the groove and it’s another hugely evocative track.
Minimal techno master Marc Houle then remixes ‘Isolation’ into something with more echo and menace buried within. It’s a subtle rework but one that makes the track that bit more fearsome and moody.
This is a fine EP that really takes you to another world entirely thanks to the studious production and great sense of mood throughout. As such, Vosper are very much a duo on the rise.