Yse – A Life Sentience EP (LMD027)

Catalogue Number: LMD027 | Release Date: December 2009

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The Lowdown

When a songwriter, producer, composer and DJ of the calibre of Atjazz states: “You’ve blown my socks off mate…I’m all the f*ck over this record, the whole thing is a classic in the making” you know you’ve got a special record on your hands! Therefore Lost My Dog are delighted, in fact, over-the-friggin-moon to present Yse’s ‘A Life Sentience EP’.

Yse (pronounced ‘Eese’ dontchaknow) is back on the imprint recently described by DMC Update as “the UK’s best house label” after a break of far too long. Perhaps best known as one half of deep house duo Rhythm Plate, Ant Plate aka Yse delivers his 3rd original EP for LMD and, as with the previous two, it’s another absolute corker. ‘Worry’ features the talents of Beckford, a veteran Birmingham based vocalist, and sees rhodes-driven deep house meet early 90’s rave. DJ Bene, a young producer from Georgia provides a remix after contacting Yse via Myspace. ‘Things Never Said’ is a bouncing deep house number that picks up where Yse’s previous release ‘Bounce Back’ left off, and ‘Disappear’ is warm deep house drenched in sweeping pads with a spoken word.

Yse’s last outing on Lost My Dog, the aforementioned ‘Bounce Back’ was a monstrous success, becoming the labels biggest selling release and receiving huge support from iDJ Magazine, Ben Watt, Mark Farina, and Joey Youngman, who at the time declared it as “the best track of Miami 2007”. It became an anthem at Manchester club night Stylus and when the club hosted a Lost My Dog party it caused absolute carnage as the entire dancefloor raised its hands, cheered and sang along. His debut release ‘Not Wot You Got’ back in 2006 was also an underground hit.

‘A Life Sentience EP’ is an even stronger release, showing how Yse has developed over the past two years. Alongside Atjazz’s response, early DJ feedback is getting the deep house mafia excited with LawnChair Generals stating “Fucking brilliant, have been so happy ever since I got this. It’s truly changed my life” and Giom commenting “Brilliant, a real gem, awesome release and fantastic production”.

To date the vast majority of Yse’s material has appeared on Lost My Dog. Alongside three original EPs, remixes of Pete Dafeet and Nonfiction have been released and a remix of South African band Bang Bang is scheduled for early 2010 with more original material to follow. Occasionally Lost My Dog allow other labels to get near to Yse, with recent remixes for Kolour Recordings and 1999 Recordings going down well. As Rhythm Plate, with Matt Rhythm, the duo have a solid decade of releases behind them including labels such as Winding Road, DiY and Hudd Traxx and licenses to Groove Armada and Tom Middleton compilations.

DJ Reactions

Ashley Beedle: Love the original mix of WORRY. Nice vocal and wicked quirky production. Big support.

Fred Everything: Always been a fan of Rhythm Plate’s/YSE crew understated kinda house music. Very much in the whole DIY North England House. Worry is a beauty! Will try it in a few hours in the club, thx!

Mr V: crazy dope deep vibes… def will rock out.

Pezzner: Wow really enjoying this. I’ll definitely support. Worry is the one standing out to me but these are all nice tracks.

Laurent Garnier: i realy like WORRY will play in my house sets

Shur-I-Kan: typical YSE, warm, funky and made with love. good tracks.

Peter Christianson: Fucking brilliant, got this from Ant and have been so happy ever since. It’s truly changed my life.

Soul Minority: Fucking amazing !!! Brilliant EP, total support from me !!! Thx

Raoul Belmans: YSE instant classic!

Grant Nelson: Love it

Da Sunlounge: Best lost my dog for a long time. Love it,real house sounds!

Giom: Awesome release and fantastic production! I charted and also included ” things” on my latest promo mix. 5/5 and full support from me

Dominic Martin: Where to start here? Some producers just nail it every time and YSE is one of them. This is the type of deep house I love, and inspires me to push on to better things with my own music. Amidst a myriad of mediocre releases, this is the best EP I’ve been sent in aeons, Worry obviously the standout track but they’re all brilliant and I can’t wait to play em out. Full support and several exclamation marks!!!

Scope: lovin worry original and things never said.. best lmd in a while.. will play and support!

Tommy Largo: every track is a winner. very stong ep. gonna play these a lot. full support!

Patrick Turner: always good, one of the masters.

Q-Burns Abstract Message: YSE, love ‘em. “Worry” is the one for me here … great, positive vibe and the vocal is superb. Other tracks and the remix are fine as well but it will be the original for my sets. Cheers for it.

Romano Arcaini: thanks for sending… always loving the yse flava… Things never said and Disappear are the ones for me

Nick Holder: Great ep! Thanks for sending!

Russell Pollitt: Aha! Been playing this off the masters :) BIG fan of the whole EP – especially Worry, definitely playing & supporting this for ever and every… as I still am with Bounce Back. Brilliant!

Murray Richardson: proper bassline vocal… well into this!

Charles Spencer: dope release.

Matt Masters: Love the old school feeling in the Original Of “Worry”…

Olivier Desmet: Great EP, the original of “Worry” is my pick for the clubs, but “Disappear” is pretty damn hot too. Love it.