Premiere: Javier Ferreira – Mercury (Pinto Remix)

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Javier Ferreira – Mercury (Pinto Remix) [Playground Records]

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Buenos Aires bassline, Guadalajara hypnosis – we’re premiering Pinto’s deep, stripped-back take on Javier Ferreira’s Mercury…

Javier Ferreira built a bassline from mercury and light,
Multi-instrument magic from Buenos Aires to the night;
He broke the rhythm loose and let it drive,
Through peak-time thunder, after-hours haze,
A groove gone liquid in a silver blaze,
Deep and functional, and somehow still alive.

Then Pinto came along, all sampler and swing,
Stripped the groove right back till the silence could sing;
Guadalajara hands on a Mexican night,
He hypnotised Mercury, slowed down the spark,
Turned peak-time to prayer in the after-hours dark,
On Playground Records, ten September: liftoff flight.

Ferreira’s Argentinian – Buenos Aires born, Barcelona based – and has been at this fifteen-odd years: DJ, producer, mixing engineer running his own studio, Soundsfera. He co-runs NINEFONT with his brother Gabriel, a hundred-plus releases deep, and has put tracks out everywhere from Suara to Rotten City. DJ Mag LA called him one of Argentina’s top five techno DJs back in 2017; these days he’s as likely to be found teaching, having co-founded academies in Buenos Aires (Insound) and Barcelona (BesideSchool).

Deeper is three originals where deep basslines, broken rhythms and driving house grooves collide – detailed but functional, working just as well at peak time as three hours past it. The remixes pull in two directions: Pinto takes Mercury deeper and darker, stripping the groove back till tension carries the track instead of rhythm; François Del Mundo & Rem’s Martinez go the other way on a separate cut, adding a soaring arpeggio and turning it into a straight-up club weapon.

Pinto’s from Guadalajara – a Bar Américas resident since 2007, founder of the Localafiesta night, part of the Vatos Locos crew, known for running a sampler as an extra mixer channel back when nobody else was bothering. His read on Mercury fits: strip it back, let it hypnotise rather than hit.

Mercury (Pinto Remix), below. Deeper is out 10 September on Playground Records, mastered by Submarea Estudio.