Shazam is a precocious music producer and DJ from Perth, Australia. Club monkeys the world over have known his name (or his tracks at least) for years, thanks to a string of remixes so slick, so lush and apparently so much better than the originals that they could only be described, as his moniker suggests, as magic.
I’m no expert on the scene, but I do like myself some funk, and the following original tracks are some of the downright funkiest minutes of electro-house I’ve ever had the pleasure of dancing to in a room by myself with or without the curtains drawn.
Pool Party 2009
No prizes for guessing when and where to crack this one out. Though I can’t recall any pool party I’ve been to that ever sounded, or felt, this schmick.
Luckier
The track that got me hooked; it remains my personal favourite out of what I’ve heard so far. The smooth melodies and effortless solos allude to his formal piano training (find out more in the interview linked below) but there is nothing dry or stuffy about the overall effect. Sublime.
Both tracks can be found on Pool Party, his recently released solo debut EP.