Take one listen to what Vinyl Mode (Casually known as Harris Mavromatis and Muhannad Nassar) have to offer, and it becomes clear… That Vinyl Mode is impossible to quantify and label as a group whose sound can be kept safely under the umbrella of a singular musical style. They are not a techno, house, deep house or trance group as such, but rather the Avant-Garde embodiment of what a contemporary trance/ house like musical effort should aspire to sound like. Thought provoking, provocative, fleshy and substantial.
Their sound is unique to them, and them alone. It’s svelte, effortless and entrancing, while remaining timelessly relevant. Their juicy selections of meaty base lines give their tunes a confidence that’s rare in a lo cal group’s sound, meanwhile maintaining a feather-like savvy and sense of audible intelligence that transcends the ears, infects the fingers and feet with dancing and gives the listener the urge to get in their car, blast the speakers to MAX and cruise. (That’s how you spend a day, I tell you.) They take a meaty modern base line, and fuse it with soulful funk, ethnic vibes and what ever else inspires them (locally and globally) and form a unique musical entity, totally novel, yet unmistakably infused with the Vinyl Mode DNA. Delivering every time.
For those of us who know of vinyl mode and their robust sound(through their podcasts, live performances and iTunes offerings), it comes as no surprise they have fans and followers from all over the world. From the Middle East to the Americas, continental Europe and the UK and everywhere else in between. They slack not, nor do they spare a thought when hitting the laptop or turntables to compose their next offering. All efforts aim to illuminate the consciousness, one loop at a time.
In a world where relevance is measured in micro seconds -I for one am glad to state- that if any of their past offerings lends us any indication of their artistic slope; it is steep, strong and yet something tells me it’s merely the beginning of a prolific career as a musical presence.