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2022, 12″ EP, Freerange Records.
When it comes to musically expansive, jazz and jazz-funked flecked deep and soulful house, Ben J Worrall AKA Crackazat is in a league of his own. That’s been the case for a while, but it’s proved beyond doubt by his latest outing on Freerange Records. Title track ‘Beacon of Light’ is simply sublime: a bouncy, soul-soaked slab of jazz-house/deep house fusion blessed with exquisite musicianship and some superb lead vocals. Equally as impressive is Ron Trent’s similarly minded remix of ‘Simple Things’, which is every bit as delightful as you’d expect from the Chicago deep house legend. Elsewhere across the EP, the ‘Maritime Dub’ of ‘Beacon of Light’ transforms the track into a driving but rolling deep house bumper and ‘Evergreen’ is a pleasingly jazzy, hazy and sun-kissed future deep house classic. – Juno