Review: Black Eyes - Mystic Aquazone EP (Ascension on Wax)

Regular readers will know we like a great 12" from the Ascension on Wax label and they've had a bit of a coup with a Nico Lahs remix too so lets get into the 'Mystic Aquazone'!

You'll recall it wasn't that long ago we we're eager to check out the "Bari Boys", Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs combination (as Tema Due) and their EPs 1 & 2 (see review HERE) and then we spot Lahs is on this EP, 'Mystic Aquazone' EP by Black Eyes (aka Matthew Jesus).

Following on from the 'Unity EP' by Toronto Hustle x Sean Roman featuring Javontte (see review HERE), Black Eyes' three tracks 'Fish Lyfe', 'Submarine Tuff Guys' and 'Vibin' Times In The Hydrocity' sound like they've been hauled out of the fish tank but they've been billed as "subtle somky house grooves" which indeed, they are as they follow releases on his own label, Upstairs Asylum Recordings (Ed. no truth in rumours of the inspiration that 'Gerry The Fish Whisperer' came from the YATM offices).

These tracks are deep in the Detroit house foundations so what of the Lahs' remix of 'Fish Lyfe'?  Expecting an "Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Latin" element? Well, don't as it's more rain forest dreamy house synthed up with jazz-funk undertones that's more groovy than the bangin' original version.

Ascension on Wax is a "Berlin-based house music label focused on collaboration with visual artists and dance music producer" so their limited edition 12s in individual sleeves, don't hang around and pre-order as soon as!

BUY LINK: https://aow-music.bandcamp.com/music

Artist: Black Eyes 

Title:  Mystic Aquazone EP

Release date: OUT ON DIGITAL 30 January 2026 / OUT ON VINYL 20 February 2026

Label : Ascension on Wax

Catalog Number : AOW004

Format: Limited Edition 12" Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp

Review: Black Eyes - Hydro-Trip Vol. 1 (inc. Rolando Remix) (Lost Control)

What is this all about as the 'Hydro-Trip' cascades deep house on ya Detroit techno dams with a four track EP.

As if Theo Parrish has gone on his summer vacation, here we dive straight in with some percussion wet suits for 'Understood Sea Being' and 'Let's Go Deeper' which warms us up for the other side.

'Scuba Lyfe' is a cool grower into your head and it gets a Rolando Remix that takes you up in the stratosphere; so much so, you'll definitely get the bends; should have been called 'the sic decompression' remix? This is the Rolando associated with UR, Los Hermanos and more recently, resident DJ at Berghain.

Black Eyes was half Planet People who released one of Jimpster's Xmas tipples last year on an EP 'Terra Firma' (check 'Reaktor Theory') but on his own, the deeper he goes into the jazzier side of a strange meridian line linking Berlin, Detroit and Liverpool (aka the BDL line).

This will sell out fast so get your orders in now on clone.nl

Lost Control 2097 · [LC2097-004] Black Eyes - Hydro-Trip Vol. 1 (inc. Rolando Remix) [CLIPS]

Title: Black Eyes 

Title: Hydro-Trip Vol. 1

Release date: 18th August, 2023

Label : Lost Control

Catalog Number :  LC2097-004 Digital / Bandcamp