PREMIERE: Forty Cats - Forest Beast [Weird Sounding Dude Remix) [Sound Avenue]

Label/DJ Signup: ♫ ► Spotify Weekly Selections: ► Website: ► Youtube: ► Soundcloud: ► Instagram: ► Facebook: ► Twitter: Release Date: 25-07-2022 Madloch’s Sound Avenue rounds out the month of July by welcoming Forty Cats back to the label for her debut EP. With well over a decade’s worth of DJ experience, Russian artist Christina Gavrilova aka Forty Cats has been a fixture of her country’s nightlife, sharing the stage with Jody Wisternoff, Nick Warren, Yotto, Dave Seaman and more. Christina’s production debut landed three years ago via 8bit Music, and in relatively short order the Russian artist has gone on to release projects via Lane 8’s This Never Happened, Hernan Cattaneo’s Sudbeat Music and Mango Alley. Also finding a home on Sound Avenue, Forty Cats opened the year with a remix of ’Dreaming Home’ by Eric Lune, before going on to re-imagine Nopi’s ’Hookan Idyll’ a few short months later. Now as we enter the year’s third quarter, Forty Cats returns to Sound Avenue with her first EP project entitled ’Forest Beast’, alongside remixes from Berni Turletti and Weird Sounding Dude. The second and final interpretation of ’Forest Beast’ is provided by Weird Sounding Dude who returns to the label for his second appearance. Based in Bangalore, the Indian artist is now considered one of his country’s most beloved progressive house producers. As a favourite of the genre’s premiere tastemakers, Weird Sounding Dude has compiled an impressive discography with standout releases via Anjunadeep, Hoomidaas, The Soundgarden and Sudbeat Music, while receiving play and support from Hernan Cattaneo, Nick Warren and Guy J. Having made his Sound Avenue debut last year with a remix of ’Union Eterna’ by Matias Vila, Weird Sounding Dude now makes a welcome return to the label with an equally impressive take on ’Forest Beast’. The Bangalore resident’s relentless curiosity for rhythmic and harmonic experimentation basks in progressive radiance here, as a delirious blur of hook heavy synths, shadowy vocal fragments and wavy arps emerge from a bed of pulsating beats and voluptuous basslines. Its eager optimism peaks across a one-minute interlude, collapsing under its gravity as modulation rises onwards to a thumping drop and hypno-fuelled finale.