Metro Area

Metro Area 3

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Record Label
Environ

About this item

Much needed represses of the four ESSENTIAL Metro Area EPs on Environ grace our shelves this week - how very exciting! Formed in Brooklyn by Morgan Geist and Darshan Jesrani, this collection of EPs (later compiled into an album), along with the early Balihu twelves by Daniel Wang pretty much informed the whole electronic disco sound that seemed to take over the more sophisticated corners of clubland at the turn of the millennium.

Sounding as timeless today as they did some twenty years ago, they've been remastered and repressed for our enjoyment, taking us right back to the warm, almost sweaty moods that seem as able to soundtrack red lit late night sensual dancing as much as basking in the mid afternoon rays of the New York city urban sprawl.

The best one in the four part series, it was originally released back in 2000, well before the amazing "Caught Up" worked its way under everybody’s skin and became the underground phenomenon that it is. Also included is the hilariously groovy "Tonky Pumpz" and the boogie-not-boogie anthem "Evidence". 

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: EP3 contains possibly the most popular Metro Area track, "Caught Up". This baby got HAMMERED to death around 2005-2010. Maurice Fulton, Theo Parrish, Luke Unabomber, Ruf Dug... everyone who's everyone were playing it. Sounding super warm and crisp with this new pressing its one of those 'every home needs one' records and if you're only gonna choose one of the set - this has to be it.

TRACK LISTING

Side 1
1. Caught Up (8:05)
Side 2
1. Tonky Pumpz (6:26)
2. Evidence (4:44)

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