Melanie Ribbe and Chris Di Perri combine on 'OG Chords' EP via Moon Harbour

Moon Harbour keeps on rolling in the New Year with label regulars Melanie Ribbe and Chris Di Perri joining forces on a trio of top new tech house tracks.

London Academy of Music Production graduate Melanie Ribbe had a huge summer in 2023, playing big sets at Hi Ibiza and Ushuaïa for ANTS amongst others. She is German-born but Jamaican-raised and draws on those influences in her music which joins the dots between Caribbean beaches and hypnotic techno. Here she works with Di Perri who was last on the label with his For You Homie EP in 2022 and since then Solar Elektro Sound resident has served up petty more underground anthems on the likes of Elrow Records.

‘OG Chords’ kicks off with toms peppering a taught and tight groove. The drums are rubbery, the bass is fat and explosive synths and yelping vocals bring the whole thing to life in a way that will raise the roof. The brilliant ‘Like That’ is another full-flavoured track with a monstrous and elastic bassline under popping drum programming and intense vocal loops. It’s pure heat for the club and last of all is ‘Takin It’ which is the most raw and direct of the lot. Once again dark vocals, thudding drums and twisted synths all interlink to a hypnotic effect.

This is a superb coming together of two of tech house’s freshest talents.

We premiere ‘OG Chords’ on Data Transmission, check it out here and grab it on Beatport

Data Transmission · Melanie Ribbe, Chris Di Perri – OG Chords [Moon Harbour]

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Grahame Farmer

Grahame Farmer’s love affair with electronic music goes back to the mid-90s when he first began to venture into the UK’s beloved rave culture, finding himself interlaced with some of the country’s most seminal club spaces. A trip to dance music’s anointed holy ground of Ibiza in 1997 then cemented his sense of purpose and laid the foundations for what was to come over the next few decades of his marriage to the music industry.