Now in its 12th year, CSM returns with a collaborative effort by label heads John Selway and Dave Turov. Their ‘Avid Hustler EP’ presents a potent comeback with two crafty tracks as honest as they are bumping, blurring genres along the way.
On the A-side, Avid Hustler swings with a popping groundwork of tricky syncopation. Sharp chordal elements jack with a crystalline synth which counterpoints the insistent bass pulse. Its feel evokes abstract memories of some of Detroit’s best moments.
B-side Good Wednesday starts unassumingly but soon enough sneaks up with some freak and some shine. Sitting somewhere in the tech house cluster, it rolls, builds, twists, and recedes along its own eccentric orbit.
