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Following a double headed debut on our recent Nasty Rips comp. – a crisp remix of Hackmans ‘ Always’ and a fizzing solo outing -‘Not Afraid’, Montreal Producer Reagan Grey makes her full Shifting Peaks debut with a high grade 3 track EP, alongside 3 useful remixes. Opener ‘OWL’ featuring Sandy Duperval on vocals, takes a neat song of love and life and rolls it over a punchy UKG/House groove, adding classic sounding organ stabs and swingy rhythms, with a tight arrangement keeping things moving along. ‘Feel the Pressure’ features Christie Nelson on vocals, with an equally strong , R n’ B inflected song woven in and out of a looser, spacier arrangement, RGs snappy drums again underpin proceedings. Not Afraid reappears, having made friends along the way via it s Nasty Rips inclusion thanks to driving Detroit-influenced synths, a pulsing bassline and sweet builds and drops. On the remix front, Lukas ( Future Boogie ) keeps things simple on OWL, with a fat, kick-lead groove and sparing use of the vox before drifting into a crowd-pleasing breakdown halfway through. Benway (aka fast rising Muscovite Nphonix) takes swathes of the Feel the Pressure vocal for a ride over broken beats and a bass heavy backing, with hints of techno torque setting his Pressurize mix apart from the similar De Pressurize version.