Ishimaru & Trevizan - Take Control

There’s a piano line buried in the back half of Take Control that does more emotional work than the entire front half combined, and it’s the reason this one stuck. Ishimaru & Trevizan keep things deceptively simple, a rolling house groove and a vocal that repeats its way into your skull, but that piano is the hook that turns a functional dancefloor tool into something you actually remember the next morning. STMPD has a house sound at this point, polished and slightly euphoric, and this fits the mould while still feeling like the work of people rather than a brand guideline. The groove is patient, content to lock in and ride rather than constantly reinventing itself, which is exactly what you want from house at 1am. It builds without ever feeling like it’s straining for a moment. I put it on while cooking and realised I’d played it three times without meaning to. That’s usually the sign of a track that’s wormed past my defences. Understated and genuinely lovely, the kind of house that doesn’t announce itself but earns the repeat.

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