Artist: Jaeson Lee & Hawke
Title: West Cirque
Label: Sunburn Recordings
By: Simon Jones | 3 July 2002
Tracklist:

• A1: Ashen and Walker Mix
• A2: HandieMan Maurice Mix
• B1: Original Mix

Jaeson Lee & Hawke "West Cirque"

The Hardkiss brothers became known in the 90's with such aliases as God Within, under which they produced the massive Raincry. Since then Gavin Hardkiss has gone on to form the Sunburn imprint and recently did a guest mix for John Digweed's Kiss FM. Here he teams up with new Sunburn protégé Jaeson Lee under his Hawke guise and together the dynamic duo bring to us 'West Cirque'

The Ashen and Walker Mix is a restrained affair, soft drums and subtle strings formulating the basis of the track, as it slowly moves along, not really differentiating from one path as careful use of oriental influenced sounds give the track some required depth.

The HandieMan Maurice mix starts off with some trippy spaced out sounds and beats, before kicking into some funky drum percussion that rolls and rocks along utilising the strings from the Ashen and Walker mix to great effect. A divergent alternative to the previous mix, with innovative use of sounds and arrangement.

The Original starts off with some dreamy synth arrangements, before the punchy percussion line kicks in, bleeps firing off in the background as the track evolves, building energy and exploding into an array of strange and wonderful sounds. When you hear this is you will wonder how they managed to pick out any key elements to work with for the remix due to the chaotic nature of the track, but it does indeed groove like hell, but offers nothing new in the terms of house music.

So there you have it. One crazy original. Two decent remixes. Worth checking out if you want some West Coast sounds to use in your dj set, or fancy a tripped out change from the norm.