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Adelaide’s master of the pitched-down bassline and 4/4 party vibes, Motez, has dropped his new four-track EP, appropriately namedThe Vibe, and it comes stacked with some of his biggest local and international collaborations to date.
Leading the charge is first single ‘Down Like This’, with fellow Adelaidean and future rap superstar Tkay Maidza providing the vocal swagger over rumbling sub bass. Elsewhere, the EP’s eponymous track pairs a Drake sample with grime MC Scrufizzer’s skitter style, and a collab with LA-based Sydney expatriate Wax Motif on ‘Like You’ delivers more bottom-heavy neo-deep-house vibes.
Motez never really switches up his style, but why would you when you’ve got the market cornered for dancefloor-ready house burners? It’s a solid representation of what you can expect on the dancefloor when Mo tours the EP around Australia and New Zealand throughout May (before taking his sound back to North America for his second tour of the continent this year).
What’s The Vibe about? It’s all peak hour, party-time house music with A-grade jacking basslines. And there’s no shame in that.
The VibebyMotezis avaiable on Sweat It Out.
