Over the last week or so I've been immersing myself in Brock Van Wey's new project Earth House Hold. It comes in the form of an album entitled 'Where Love Lived', released on CD by the relatively new Love's Label. Brock's work usually manifests itself in the ambient scene, under his Bvdub moniker with a wide spacious, dreamy kind of sound. Clearly someone heavily influenced by various forms of music, he has tried all sorts of approaches to production from dub techno to downtempo/R&B.
In the 80s and 90s, Brock spent a great deal of time DJing, when House music was young. He has created the marvellous 'Where Love Lived' album in an effort to capture the magic that swept through those decades before the music became saturated and bogged down with modern effects.
This is an honest look at the scene back then, stripped back, simple and leisurely and pushing nostalgia for this era to the very fore. Brock has placed raw emotion at the very heart of this music in a similar way to his work as Bvdyub yet he has pitted it with a raw and repetitive Deep House structure to really drive home the impact. As someone who shares the same idealistic reflection back on those days, this is something that has really grabbed me and as I consider my end of year favourites, it is quickly rising to the top of the pile.
Below is an embedded Soundcloud preview of the album from the label. If you like what you hear, click through to www.darla.com and run a search for it - you won't be disappointed!
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