HOPE ESTHIEM VS XP8
'Heartless Disaster'
One of the beautiful
things about Kickstarter is the ideas people come up with as
incentives. XP8 for example, when funding their excellent
'Adrenochrome' album earlier this year offered to collaborate with
one of their funders. Gerry and Jadei of Hope Esthiem quickly snapped
up that opportunity, the result of which is the new single 'Heartless
Disaster'... and it's a pretty damn good one too.
The song is simply a
huge club anthem with dual male and female vocals coupled together to
add plenty of melodic scale to the driving trance-tinged ebm of the
track. The distinct throbbing bass of XP8 and the enveloping synths
distil the best of the band's recent album into this song. While the
remix contributed by Studio-X brings a more dubstep flavour to the
original song with it's thunderous stuttering bass and toe-tapping
rhythm.
'Heartless Disaster' is
a distinct and fresh track that sees both sides bringing out the best
in each other. The final production and mix on both the original and
the remix are faultless, and this will no doubt shortly become a
mainstay of most club nights.